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tingly

tingly

19 3.7
A slight pleasant prickling feeling often caused by excitement or a mild touch
  • adjective
  • /ˈtɪŋɡli/
translation icon : hormigueante
  • As the roller coaster climbed higher, I started to feel a tingly anticipation in my stomach.
  • feel tingly
  • tingly sensation
  • tingly feeling

Like, your body is tingly throughout for hours.

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Examples

  • That... it just makes me feel so warm and tingly inside.

  • I refill the bath with hot water three times until my skin is pink and tingly, and the mirrors are all steamed up.

    Fiction book (1994)
  • I feel tingly all over right now, OK.

  • I feel tingly all over right now.

  • Sometimes it does have a tingly feeling.

  • For me, it feels a little bit tingly, warm.

  • My face feels so tingly.

  • I'm so warm now but my body has this nice tingly feeling.

  • It really does make my face feel kind of tingly and clean.

  • So I'm really confident and hopeful and I get a kind of tingly feeling in my back.

Synonyms

buzzy
vstingly
1 6.7

A slight tingling feeling in the body, often after numbness

is a prickling, pleasant sensation usually caused by excitement or anticipation
tickly
vstingly
  • UK
1 3.7

Causing a light itch or tingling that makes you want to cough and scratch

is a slight pleasant prickling feeling without making one want to scratch or cough
atingle
vstingly
  • Archaic
6.4

Having a slight tingling on the skin from excitement or cold

is the same sensation but presented in a different word form

Antonyms

57 3.1

Unable to feel a part of the body, often from cold or medicine

insensitive
  • Specialized
5 4.5

Not affected by things like touch, heat, or light

How Intense

burning
45 3.9
stinging
3.1
prickly
14 3.3
tingly
19 3.7

Surface Forms

tingly positive
tinglier comparative
tingliest superlative

Morphology

tingly = tingle (transparent) = tingle + y

Built by adding the adjectival suffix '-y' to 'tingle', so the meaning 'having a slight prickling sensation' is directly derived.

Etymology

The word tingly comes from the verb tingle, which you can remember as a small 'ting' feeling, and the ending -y makes it mean 'having' that feeling. A helpful way to remember it is to imagine a tiny 'ting' or prick running through your skin, which is why tingly describes a slight, pleasant prickling or stinging feeling.