ticklishadjective
uk/ˈtɪk.əl.ɪʃ//ˈtɪk.lɪʃ/us/ˈtɪk.əl.ɪʃ//ˈtɪk.lɪʃ/ticklish adjective (SKIN)
If you are ticklish, you quickly feel uncomfortable when someone lightly touches your skin to make you laugh.
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Reacting and responding
- backlash
- bite
- bite back (at sb/sth)
- chain reaction
- counteract
- greet
- knob
- react
- reactive
- recoil
- reflexively
- respond
- response
- responsive
- rise
- sensitive
- shock wave
- strike
- wake (sb) up
- worm
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ticklish adjective (DIFFICULT)
A ticklish situation is one that needs to be dealt with carefully:
This leaves me with the ticklish job of explaining to Debbie that she is not invited.
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Complicated and difficult to do
- advanced
- ambitious
- another
- arduous
- as much as you can do idiom
- fiddly
- fiendish
- fierce
- formidable
- get blood out of/from a stone idiom
- murky
- painstaking
- picnic
- problematic
- punishing
- rigorous
- uphill
- vexed
- wearing
- wearying
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