thin-skinned
thin-skinned is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Having a thin skin; hence, sensitive; irritable.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- acute
- aesthetic
- aesthetics
- affectibility
- alive
- anal
- aromatic
- aware
- being
- cause
- censorious
- chicken
- conscious
- consciousness
- core
- cultivate
- dainty
- delicacy
- delicate
- die
- difficult
- difficulty
- disdain
- enthusiastic
- epicure
- epicurism
- exacting
- excitability
- excitable
- excite
- expressive
- external
- fastidious
- feel
- feeling
- finical
- finicky
- gift
- gourmet
- gushing
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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