ticklish Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite difficult to handle; requiring great tact
    touchy; delicate.
    • delicate negotiations with the big powers
    • hesitates to be explicit on so ticklish a matter
    • a touchy subject

WordNet

Tic"klish adjective
Definitions
  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.
  2. Standing so as to be liable to totter and fall at the slightest touch; unfixed; easily affected; unstable.
    Can any man with comfort lodge in a condition so dismally ticklish? Barrow.
  3. Difficult; nice; critical; as, a ticklish business.
    Surely princes had need, in tender matters and ticklish times, to beware what they say. Bacon.
    -- Tic"klish*ly, adv. -- Tic"klish*ness, n.

Webster 1913