prickly (adj.)
- acanthoid
- aciculate
- aculeate
- allergic
- anaphylactic
- annoying
- bad-tempered
- barbed
- bothersome
- brambly
- briery
- bristly
- cantankerous
- complex
- complicated
- contentious
- cranky
- crawly
- delicate
- difficult
- edgy
- emotional
- empathetic
- empathic
- eruptive
- excitable
- explosive
- fractious
- fretful
- goosy
- hard
- high-spirited
- high-strung
- hypersensitive
- inflammable
- intricate
- irascible
- irritable
- itchy
- knotty
- mettlesome
- nervous
- nettlesome
- overrefined
- oversensitive
- peevish
- perturbable
- pettish
- petulant
- refined
- responsive
- sensitive
- setaceous
- setose
- short-tempered
- skittish
- snappish
- spiky
- spinous
- spiny
- stinging
- supersensitive
- sympathetic
- tactful
- temperamental
- tender
- testy
- tetchy
- thin-skinned
- thorny
- ticklish
- tingling
- touchy
- troublesome
- volcanic
- waspish
