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Umbrageous vs Touchy - What's the difference?

umbrageous | touchy |

As adjectives the difference between umbrageous and touchy

is that umbrageous is having shade; shady; having shade provided by thick foliage while touchy is (of a situation) extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness.

umbrageous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having shade; shady; having shade provided by thick foliage.
  • *1858 , R M Ballantyne, The Coral Island :
    • ... without which the stem could not have supported its heavy and umbrageous top.
  • *1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 130:
  • *:Rhodes gazed wistfully into the dense umbrageous tangle whence his host had disappeared.
  • (figuratively) irritable, easily upset

    • Derived terms

    * umbrageously * umbrageousness

    touchy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of a situation) Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable; requiring caution or tactfulness.
    • It is an extremely touchy situation, with everybody's patience wearing thin.
  • (of a person) Easily offended; oversensitive; ticklish.
    • He can be very touchy when you talk about his cat, so be as tactful as possible.

    Related terms

    * touchy-feely

    See also

    * tetchy * touch and go