Modifies a noun

• problem: Their ticklish problem was having to traverse the tortured terrain of the Cambrian Mountains yet keep the biking within the bounds of a beginner.

• foot: Don't worry if you have ticklish feet, as the pressure is firm and therefore does not tickle.

• matter: But here is a ticklish matter for Turgenev himself.

• mind: He had what Johnson called " a very ticklish mind " , one clouded by severe depression.

• situation: Sometimes - quite often, actually - I get into ticklish situations.

• subject: Interestingly, my unanswered question that closed the proceedings was on open borders - a ticklish subject in Respect too, we find ).

Modifying Another Word

• very: He had what Johnson called " a very ticklish mind " , one clouded by severe depression.

• rather: A ticklish problem A report by the sanitary inspector said that Lassodie had always been a rather ticklish problem.