adjective
definition
Sensitive or susceptible to being tickled.
example
She is ticklish only on her tummy and the bottoms of her feet.
definition
Touchy, sensitive, or delicate.
Examples of ticklish in a Sentence
Elmo is still ticklish, but he now does much more than just wiggle and giggle.
But here is a ticklish matter for Turgenev himself.
Their ticklish problem was having to traverse the tortured terrain of the Cambrian Mountains yet keep the biking within the bounds of a beginner.
Do n't worry if you have ticklish feet, as the pressure is firm and therefore does not tickle.
A ticklish problem A report by the sanitary inspector said that Lassodie had always been a rather ticklish problem.
Sometimes - quite often, actually - I get into ticklish situations.
The Washington Post went on to say that "what's remarkable here isn't Moore's political animosity, or ticklish wit."
He had what Johnson called " a very ticklish mind ", one clouded by severe depression.
But he had made up his mind to be not an actor but an onlooker and critic in the battle of life; and when Wieland, whom he met on one of his excursions, suggested doubts as to the wisdom of his choice, Schopenhauer replied, "Life is a ticklish business; I have resolved to spend it in reflecting upon it."