Synonyms and related words :
allergic, altricial, anaphylactic, anserine, anserous, aquiline, avian, avicular, bashful, birdlike, birdy, columbine, cowardly, delicate, diffident, dovelike, empathetic, empathic, fearful, fearing, fearsome, hawklike, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, in fear, irritable, itchy, jumpy, mousy, nervous, nesting, nidicolous, nidificant, oscine, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passerine, passible, prickly, psittacine, rabbity, rasorial, refined, responsive, scary, sensitive, shaky, shivery, shrinking, shy, skittery, skittish, startlish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, timid, timorous, touchy, trembling, tremulous, trepidant, trigger-happy