offendable
Quick to bristle
Offendable describes someone who can be offended or is susceptible to taking offense.
It often carries a mildly critical tone, suggesting the person is perhaps too easily wounded by remarks or slights.
He's so offendable that we have to watch every word around him.
The word appears in discussions about sensitivity and social interaction, sometimes in debates about whether being offendable is a character flaw or a reasonable response to genuine discourtesy.
Easily hurt by remarks
- oversensitiveExcessively prone to offense
- pricklySpiny or irritable
- hypersensitiveExcessively reactive to stimuli
- touchyEasily upset or offended
tetchy · testy · irritable · petulant · peevish · querulous · fretful · sulky
thin-skinned
Easily hurt by remarks
- oversensitiveExcessively prone to offense
- pricklySpiny or irritable
- hypersensitiveExcessively reactive to stimuli
touchy · tetchy · testy · irritable · petulant · peevish · querulous · fretful · sulky · cranky
susceptible
Easily influenced or harmed
- impressionableEasily influenced or affected
- sensitiveEasily affected emotionally
- fragileEasily broken or damaged
delicate · insecure · exposed · unguarded · open · naive · gullible · defenseless · permeable · suggestible
provoked
Caused a reaction
incensed · indignant · resentful · affronted · insulted · peeved · exasperated · irate · fuming · slighted
offendableunoffendable
Cannot be affronted
unflappable · imperturbable · thick-skinned · impervious · unbothered
offendableresilient
Able to recover quickly
tough · hardened · indomitable · unbreakable · robust
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