ticklish

ticklish
    adj 1: difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate
           negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be
           explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject"
           [syn: {delicate}, {ticklish}, {touchy}]
    

Ticklish \Tic"klish\, a.
   1. Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole
      of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the
      hand is not ticklish. --Bacon.
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   2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the
      slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.
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            Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so
            dismally ticklish?                    --Barrow.
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   3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.
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            Surely princes had need, in tender matters and
            ticklish times, to beware what they say. --Bacon.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Tic"klish*ly}, adv. --
      {Tic"klish*ness}, n.
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116 Moby Thesaurus words for "ticklish":
      Herculean, abstruse, allergic, anaphylactic, arduous, awkward,
      brutal, capricious, changeable, complex, critical, dangerous,
      delicate, demanding, desultory, difficile, difficult, empathetic,
      empathic, exacting, fickle, formidable, fragile, goosy, hairy,
      hard, hard-earned, hard-fought, hazardous, high-strung,
      hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, infirm, insecure,
      insubstantial, intricate, irritable, itchy, jawbreaking, knotted,
      knotty, laborious, mean, mercurial, miffy, nervous, no picnic,
      not easy, on slippery ground, on thin ice, operose, overrefined,
      oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, perilous,
      precarious, prickly, provisional, refined, responsive, rigorous,
      risky, rocky, rough, rugged, sensitive, set with thorns, severe,
      shaky, shifting, shifty, skittish, slippery, slippy, spiny, steep,
      strenuous, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental,
      temporary, tender, tentative, tetchy, thin-skinned, thorny,
      tickling, tickly, titillative, toilsome, touch-and-go, touchy,
      tough, treacherous, tricky, uncertain, undependable, unfaithworthy,
      unreliable, unsettled, unsolid, unsound, unstable, unsteadfast,
      unsteady, unsubstantial, unsure, untrustworthy, uphill, variable,
      volatile, wicked