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Thin-skinned

Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.

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Sensitive 84% connected

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

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Sensitive 84% connected

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

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Huffiness 74% connected

The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Huffiness 74% connected

The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper.

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Huffy 92% connected

Puffed up; as, huffy bread.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Touchy 92% connected

Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.

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Caring adjective · 78% connection

feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others; "caring friends"

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Compassion noun · 78% connection

a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering

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Compassionateness noun · 78% connection

a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering

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Considerate adjective · 78% connection

showing concern for the rights and feelings of others; "friends considerate enough to leave us alone"

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Empathy noun · 78% connection

understanding and entering into another's feelings

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Supportive adjective · 78% connection

furnishing support or assistance; "a supportive family network"; "his family was supportive of his attempts to be a writer"

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Sympathy noun · 78% connection

a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other; "the two of them were in clo…

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Choler noun · 78% connection

an irritable petulant feeling

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Crossness noun · 78% connection

an irritable petulant feeling

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Dermis noun · 78% connection

The deep sensitive layer of the skin beneath the scarfskin or epidermis; -- called also true skin, derm, derma, corium, cutis, and end…

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Enderon noun · 78% connection

The deep sensitive and vascular layer of the skin and mucous membranes.

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Fiery adjective · 78% connection

Passionate; easily provoked; irritable.

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Film noun · 78% connection

A thin skin; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity; hence, any thin, slight covering.

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Fussiness noun · 78% connection

an irritable petulant feeling

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Hot-blooded adjective · 78% connection

Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.

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Hot-livered adjective · 78% connection

Of an excitable or irritable temperament; irascible.

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Inflammable adjective · 78% connection

Excitable; irritable; irascible; easily provoked; as, an inflammable temper.

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Inirritable adjective · 78% connection

Not irritable; esp. (Physiol.), incapable of being stimulated to action, as a muscle.

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Inquietude noun · 78% connection

feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable

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Irascible adjective · 78% connection

Prone to anger; easily provoked or inflamed to anger; choleric; irritable; as, an irascible man; an irascible temper or mood.

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Irritability noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.

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Irritable adjective · 78% connection

Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as, an irritable temper.

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Irritably adverb · 78% connection

In an irritable manner.

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Lamella noun · 78% connection

a thin plate or scale of anything, as a thin scale growing from the petals of certain flowers; or one of the thin plates or scales of…

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Naggy adjective · 78% connection

Irritable; touchy.

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