| Main Entry: | allergic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having a reaction to food, material, etc. |
Synonyms: |
affected, averse to, dyspathetic, hypersensitive, immune sensitive, sensitive, sensitized, susceptible |
| Main Entry: | sensitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impressionable |
Synonyms: |
acute, cognizant, conscious, delicate, easily affected, emotionable, emotional, feeling, fine, high-strung, hung up, hypersensitive, impressible, irritable, keen, knowing, nervous, oversensitive, perceiving, perceptive, precarious, precise, psychic, reactive, receptive, responsive, seeing, sensatory, sensile, sensorial, sensory, sentient, supersensitive, susceptible, tense, ticklish, touchy, touchy feely, tricky, tuned in, turned on to, umbrageous, understanding, unstable, wired |
| Notes: | sensible means showing reason or sound judgment; sensitive means responsive to physical stimuli or having the capacity or ability of perceiving with a sense or senses |
Antonyms: |
impassive, insensitive, thick-skinned, unsusceptible |
| Main Entry: | temperamental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry most of the time; moody |
Synonyms: |
capricious, changeable, cussed, easily upset, emotional, erratic, excitable, explosive, fickle, fiery, froward, headstrong, high-strung, hotheaded, hyper, hypersensitive, impatient, in bad mood, inconsistent, irritable, mean, mercurial, neurotic, ornery, passionate, petulant, sensitive, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, uncertain, undependable, unpredictable, unreliable, unstable, variable, volatile, willful |
Antonyms: |
easygoing, happy, laid-back, peaceful, pleased |
| Main Entry: | tender |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | painful, sore |
Synonyms: |
aching, acute, bruised, delicate, hypersensitive, inflamed, irritated, oversensitive, raw, sensitive, smarting, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy |
Antonyms: |
healthy, ok, unpained |
| Main Entry: | thin-skinned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily hurt |
Synonyms: |
delicate, easily hurt, easily offended, hypersensitive, oversensitive, sensitive, soft, touchy, ultrasensitive, vulnerable |
| Main Entry: | touchy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily offended |
Synonyms: |
bad-tempered, bundle of nerves, cantankerous, captious, choleric, crabbed, cranky, cross, delicate, dicey, grouchy, grumpy, hazardous, hypersensitive, irascible, irritable, jumpy, mean, ornery*, oversensitive, peevish, perturbable, pettish, petulant, precarious, querulous, quick-tempered, risky, sensitive, splenetic, surly, temperamental, testy, thin-skinned, ticklish, tricky, unpredictable, unsafe, uptight*, volatile, wired up, wound up |
Antonyms: |
calm, easygoing, laid-back, unflappable |
| Main Entry: | susceptive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | sensitive |
Synonyms: |
acute, cognizant, conscious, delicate, easily affected, emotionable, emotional, feeling, fine, high-strung, hung up, hypersensitive, impressible, impressionable, irritable, keen, knowing, nervous, oversensitive, perceiving, perceptive, precarious, precise, psychic, reactive, receptive, responsive, seeing, sensatory, sensible, sensile, sensorial, sensory, sentient, supersensitive, susceptible, tense, ticklish, touchy, touchy feely, tricky, tuned in, turned on to, umbrageous, understanding, unstable, wired |