Dictionary Entry
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.
6 letters · Scrabble 12 · Words With Friends 14 · 12 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive 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.
- 2transitive verb
To please; to gratify; to make joyous.
- 3intransitive verb
To feel titillation.
- 4intransitive verb
To excite the sensation of titillation.
- 5adjective
Ticklish; easily tickled.
- 6adjective
Liable to change; uncertain; inconstant.
- 7adjective
Wavering, or liable to waver and fall at the slightest touch; unstable; easily overthrown.
- 8noun
the act of tickling
Synonyms
- 9noun
a cutaneous sensation often resulting from light stroking
- 10verb
touch or stroke lightly
"The grass tickled her calves"
- 11verb
feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
"he was thrilled by the speed and the roar of the engine"
- 12verb
touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
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