Usually means: Easily hurt by criticism, sensitive.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word thin-skinned:

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  1. thin-skinned: Merriam-Webster
  2. thin-skinned: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. thin-skinned: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. thin-skinned, thin-skinned: Collins English Dictionary
  5. thin-skinned: Vocabulary.com
  6. Thin-skinned, thin-skinned: Wordnik
  7. thin-skinned: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. thin-skinned: Wiktionary
  9. thin-skinned: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. thin-skinned: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. thin-skinned: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. thin-skinned: Dictionary.com
  13. thin-skinned: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Thin-skinned: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. thin-skinned: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. thin-skinned: Rhymezone
  17. Thin-skinned: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. Thin-skinned: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  19. thin-skinned: FreeDictionary.org
  20. thin-skinned: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. thin-skinned: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. thin-skinned: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. thin-skinned: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (idiomatic) Overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy.
adjective:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see thin, skinned.

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