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ticklier

ticklier is the comparative form of tickly.

Meaning of tickly

Adjective

tickly (comparative ticklier, superlative tickliest)

  1. Having an itchy sensation like that of being tickled.
  2. Producing an itchy sensation like that of being tickled.
    • a tickly woollen blanket
  3. (rare) Ticklish.
    • He just knows I'm not tickly behind my knees (but who is?)!1993 July 21, Peter John Cameron, “Ticklish me? Never.”, in soc.bi (Usenet), archived from the original on 12 Apr 2026

Questions about ticklier

What is ticklier the comparative form of?
Ticklier is the comparative form of tickly.

Words near ticklier in the dictionary

  1. ticklesome
  2. ticklesomeness
  3. tickless
  4. ticklest
  5. tickleth
  6. ticklier
  7. tickliest
  8. tickliness
  9. tickling
  10. tickling pink
  11. tickling someone's fancy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ticklier (page history and authors); tickly (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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