Uk English Meaning of sensitive

sensitive

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Definitions and Meaning of sensitive in English

Wordnet

sensitive (n)

someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead

Wordnet

sensitive (a)

responsive to physical stimuli

being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others

able to feel or perceive

Wordnet

sensitive (s)

hurting

of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security

Webster

sensitive (a.)

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.

Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.

Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.

Serving to affect the sense; sensible.

Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.

FAQs About the word sensitive

sensitive

someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead, responsive to physical stimuli, being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumst

accurate,acute,delicate,keen,perceptive,quick,sharp,clear,discerning,good

bad,dead,dull,dulled,fading,insensitive,deadened,dimmed,imprecise,inaccurate

sensitising => Sensitizing, sensitiser => sensitiser, sensitised => sensitised, sensitise => sensitise, sensitisation => Sensitisation,