tickle
tickle is a 6-letter English word with 12 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. Face value is 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- transitive verb. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted.
- transitive verb. To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
- intransitive verb. To feel titillation.
- intransitive verb. To excite the sensation of titillation.
- adjective. Ticklish; easily tickled.
- adjective. Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.
- adjective. Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
- noun. the act of tickling
- noun. a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking
- verb. touch or stroke lightly
"The grass tickled her calves"
- verb. feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
"he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine"
- verb. touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
Synonyms
tickling, titillation, thrill, vibrate, titillate, vellicate
Anagrams
Other playable words that use exactly the letters in tickle:
Common word forms
tickled, tickler, tickles, ticklely, tickling, tickleness
Words from these letters
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