ticklish (redirected from ticklishly)

tick·lish  (tklsh)

adj.

1. Sensitive to tickling.

2. Easily offended or upset; touchy.

3. Requiring skillful or tactful handling; delicate: a ticklish matter.

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ticklish·ly adv.

ticklish·ness n.

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ticklish [ˈtɪklɪʃ]

adj

1. susceptible and sensitive to being tickled

2. delicate or difficult a ticklish situation

3. easily upset or offended

ticklishly  adv

ticklishness  n

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

ticklish - difficult to handle; requiring great tact; "delicate negotiations with the big powers";"hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter"; "a touchy subject" touchy, delicate difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"

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ticklish

adjective difficult, sensitive, delicate, tricky, nice, critical, uncertain, awkward, risky, unstable, thorny, touchy, unsteady the ticklish question of the future of the EU

Translations

ticklish [ˈtɪklɪʃ] tickly [ˈtɪklɪ] ADJ

1. (lit) (= sensitive to tickling) [person] → cosquilloso; (= which tickles) [blanket] → que pica; [cough] → irritante
to be ticklish [person] → tener cosquillas, ser cosquilloso

2. (fig) (= touchy) [person] → picajoso, delicado; (= delicate) [situation, problem] → peliagudo, delicado
it's a ticklish business → es un asunto delicado

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ticklish [ˈtɪklɪʃ] adj

[person] → chatouilleux/euse
Are you ticklish? → Tu es chatouilleux?

(= which tickles) [blanket] → qui chatouille, qui gratouille

[cough] → d'irritation

(= tricky) [issue, problem] → épineux/euse
tick-over [ˈtɪkəʊvə^r] n (British) [engine] → ralenti m
tic-tac-toe [ˌtɪktækˈtəʊ] n (US) → morpion m, jeu m de morpion

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ticklish

adj (lit) → kitz(e)lig; (fig) situation also → heikel; (= touchy) → empfindlich; ticklish cough → Reizhusten m

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ticklish [ˈtɪklɪʃ] tickly [ˈtɪklɪ] adj (fam) (easily tickled, person) → che soffre il solletico; (which tickles, blanket) → che provoca prurito; (cough) → che provoca una sensazione di irritazione in gola (fig) (touchy, person) → permaloso/a; (delicate, situation, problem) → delicato/a

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ticklish → سريع الغضب lechtivý kilden kitzelig γαργαλιστικός cosquilloso herkästi kutiava chatouilleux škakljiv che soffre il solletico くすぐったがる 간지러운 lichtgeraakt pirrende łaskotliwy coceguento боящийся щекотки kittlig จั๊กจี้ได้ง่าย kolay gıdıklanan có máu buồn 怕胳肢的