sensitive

Plural: sensitives

Noun

• someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
• A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

Adjective

• responsive to physical stimuli
  • "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"
  • "a sensitive voltmeter"
  • "sensitive skin"
  • "sensitive to light"
• being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others
  • "sensitive to the local community and its needs"
• able to feel or perceive

Adjective Satellite

• hurting
• of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security

Adj

• Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
• Responsive to stimuli.
• Easily offended, upset, or hurt.
• Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting.
• Meant to be concealed or kept secret.
• Being aware of the feelings of others and taking care not to offend them.
• Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy.
• Accurate; able to register small changes in some property.
• Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism.

Examples

• Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.
• Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.
• Thank you for being sensitive.
• The president's untimely statement disrupted some very sensitive negotiations.
• These are highly sensitive documents.

Synonyms

medium, raw, sensible, sore, spiritualist, tender, aware, caring, classified, compassionate, nesh, precise

Antonyms

insensible, insensitive, nonsensitive, resistant, stoic, uncaring

Related Words

sense

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