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thin-skinned

thin-skinned adjective: overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy.

Adjective

thin-skinned (comparative more thin-skinned, superlative most thin-skinned)

  1. (idiomatic) Overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy.
    • She's rather thin-skinned when it comes to comments about her work.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thin, skinned.
    • You must handle thin-skinned fruits carefully to avoid bruising them.

thin-skinned meaning in Malayalam and Kannada

thin-skinned in Malayalam

oversensitive, sensitive, hypersensitive
തൊലിക്കട്ടി കുറഞ്ഞ, തൊട്ടാൽവാടിയായ, എളുപ്പം കോപിക്കുന്ന, വേഗം മനസ്സിൽ തട്ടുന്ന, പെട്ടെന്നു ക്ഷോഭിക്കുന്ന, തീവ്രമായി പ്രതികരിക്കുന്ന

thin-skinned in Kannada

ಬಹುಸೂಕ್ಷ್ಮವಾದ ಭಾವನೆಗಳ, ಮೃದು ಮನಸ್ಸಿನ, ಟೀಕೆಯಿಂದ ಬೇಗ ನೋಯುವ

Antonyms of thin-skinned

Forms of thin-skinned

comparativemore thin-skinned
superlativemost thin-skinned

Words formed from thin-skinned

Questions about thin-skinned

What does thin-skinned mean?
Thin-skinned means overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy.
What is thin-skinned in Malayalam?
Thin-skinned in Malayalam is തൊലിക്കട്ടി കുറഞ്ഞ, തൊട്ടാൽവാടിയായ, എളുപ്പം കോപിക്കുന്ന. See Thin-skinned meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is thin-skinned?
Thin-skinned is an adjective.

Words near thin-skinned in the dictionary

  1. thin-film interference
  2. thin-film interferences
  3. thin-film transistor
  4. thin-film transistors
  5. thin-layer chromatography
  6. thin-skinned
  7. thin-skinnedness
  8. thin-slice
  9. thin-sliced
  10. thin-slices
  11. thin-slicing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: thin-skinned (page history and authors); thin-skinned (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); thin-skinned (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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