Dictionary Definition
sensitive adj
1 responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's
leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive
skin"; "sensitive to light" [ant: insensitive]
2 having acute mental or emotional sensibility;
"sensitive to the local community and its needs" [ant: insensitive]
3 able to feel or perceive; "even amoeba are
sensible creatures"; "the more sensible p{ enveloping(a),
shrouding(a), concealing,& (concealing by enclosing or wrapping
as if in something that is not solid; "the enveloping darkness";
"hills concealed by shrouding mists") }arts of the skin" [syn:
sensible] [ant:
insensible]
5 used officially of classified information or
matters affecting national security
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- Responsive to stimuli.
- Of a person, easily offended, upset or hurt.
- My friend Max is very sensitive, he cried today because of the bad news.
- Accurate (instrument)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
responsive to stimuli
- Finnish: herkkä, altis
- German: empfindlich, sensibel
- Greek: ευαίσθητος (evaísthitos)
- Hungarian: érzékeny
- Japanese: 敏感
- Russian: чувствительный (čuvstvít'el’nyj), чуткий (čútkij), восприимчивый (vospriímčivyj)
- Spanish: sensible, sensitivo
of a person
- Czech: citlivý
- Finnish: herkkä, herkkätunteinen
- German: empfindlich, sensibel
- Greek: ευαίσθητος (evaísthitos)
- Hungarian: érzékeny
- Japanese: 敏感
- Russian: чувствительный (čuvstvít'el’nyj), ранимый (ranímyj)
- Spanish: sensible, susceptible
of an instrument
- Czech: citlivý
- Finnish: herkkä
- Greek: ευαίσθητος (evaísthitos)
- Hungarian: érzékeny
- Japanese: 繊細
- Russian: чувствительный (čuvstvít'el’nyj), точный (tóčnyj)
- Spanish: sensible
- ttbc Arabic:
- ttbc Chinese: 敏感 (mǐngǎn)
- ttbc Dutch: gevoelig
- ttbc French: sensible (1)
- ttbc Italian: sensibile
- ttbc Korean: 민감한 (min-gamhan)
- ttbc Portuguese: sensível
- ttbc Swedish: känslig (1,2)
- ttbc Turkish: duyarlı, hassas
See also
French
Adjective
sensitive- The feminine form of sensitif
- Sensible (this is a false friend (faux amis))
Italian
Adjective
sensitive- Feminine plural form of sensitivo
Extensive Definition
Sensitivity may refer to:
- Sensitivity (biology)
- Sensitivity (electronics)
- Sensitivity (human)
- Sensitivity (information)
- Sensitivity (tests)
- Sensitivity (radio receiver)
- Sensitivity analysis
- "Sensitivity (song)", a song by rhythm and blues singer, Ralph Tresvant
sensitive in German: Empfindlichkeit
sensitive in French: Sensibilité
sensitive in Simple English:
Sensitivity
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accurate, acute, adaptable, affected, agitable, algetic, allergic, anaphylactic, angry, appreciative, attuned, aware, bendable, bending, burning, censorious, chafed, choicy, choosy, cognizant, compliant, conscientious, conscious, critical, delicate, differential, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative, disposed, distinctive, distinguishing, ductile, edgy, elastic, emotionable, emotional, emotionally
unstable, empathetic,
empathic, eruptive, exact, exacting, excitable, explosive, exposed, extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fastidious, feeling, festering, fictile, fiery, fine, flexible, flexile, flexuous, formable, formative, galled, giving, goosy, high-mettled,
high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hot-tempered,
hyperesthetic,
hyperpathic,
hypersensitive,
impressed, impressible, impressionable, inclined, inflamed, inflammable, influenced, irascible, irritable, irritated, itchy, keen, knowing, like putty, limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, meticulous, mettlesome, miffy, moldable, nervous, nice, obnoxious, open, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, particular, passible, perceiving, perceptive, perfectionistic,
perturbable,
petulant, picky, plastic, pliable, pliant, precarious, precise, precisianistic, predisposed, prickly, priggish, prone, prudish, punctilious, puristic, puritanic, quarrelsome, quick-tempered,
rankling, raw, reactive, receptive, red, refined, responsive, scrupulous, seeing, selective, sensational, sensatory, sensible, sensile, sensimotor, sensorial, sensorimotor, sensory, sensual, sensuous, sentient, sequacious, shapable, sharp, skittish, smarting, soft, softhearted, sore, springy, startlish, strict, subject, submissive, subtle, supersensitive, supple, susceptible, susceptive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental, tender, tenderhearted, tense, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, tingling, touchy, tractable, tractile, tricky, understanding, unstable, volatile, volcanic, vulnerable, warmhearted, whippy, willowy, yielding