- agitable
- allergic
- all nerves
- anaphylactic
- apprehensive
- cantankerous
- combustible
- crabbed
- cranky
- delicate
- detonating
- edgy
- emotional
- emotionally unstable
- empathetic
- empathic
- eruptive
- excitable
- explodable
- explosive
- fearful
- fiery
- fretful
- frightened
- fulminating
- goosy
- highly emotional
- high-mettled
- high-spirited
- high-strung
- hot-tempered
- hyperesthetic
- hyperpathic
- hypersensitive
- inflammable
- irascible
- irritable
- itchy
- mettlesome
- nerves on edge
- nervous
- nervy
- on edge
- overrefined
- oversensible
- oversensitive
- overstrung
- overtender
- panicky
- passible
- peppery
- perturbable
- petulant
- prickly
- quick-tempered
- refined
- responsive
- sensitive
- short-tempered
- skittery
- skittish
- snappish
- splenetic
- startlish
- supersensitive
- sympathetic
- tactful
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- tender
- tense
- testy
- tetchy
- thin-skinned
- ticklish
- touchy
- ugly
- uneasy
- unpredictable
- volatile
- volcanic
- waspish