sensitive
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: From Middle French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sensitivus. By surface analysis, sense + -ite + -ive.
Inflected forms:
form: more sensitive
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most sensitive
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: sensative
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: sensitives
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: sensative
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
pos: adj
examples: The sensitive faculty most part overrules reason, the soul is carried hoodwinked, and the understanding captive like a beast.
gloss: Responsive to stimuli.
pos: adj
examples: The engine seemed a little sensitive to wet rails, and in consequence the uphill work was not so good north of Dundee as it had been earlier. But I have noted this same "touchiness" on the part of the "A4s", and other modern British 4-6-2s, so that in this respect No. 2006 proved no exception.
gloss: Easily offended, upset, or hurt.
pos: adj
examples: Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.
gloss: Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting.
pos: adj
tags: usually
examples: Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.
gloss: Meant to be concealed or kept secret.
pos: adj
examples: These are highly sensitive documents.
Xeltan: I cannot speak more about this problem; it is too sensitive. Suffice it to say, she has compromised my authority as a diplomat.
gloss: Being aware of the feelings of others and taking care not to offend them.
pos: adj
examples: Thank you for being sensitive.
gloss: Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy.
pos: adj
examples: The president's untimely statement disrupted some very sensitive negotiations.
gloss: Accurate; able to register small changes in some property.
pos: adj
gloss: Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism.
pos: adj
tags: archaic
gloss: A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.
pos: noun
examples: [I]t is quite certain that many of their fears were unfounded, and centred upon perfectly innocent people - especially those who were what we now call "mediumistic" or "sensitives".
After all, Madame Rosita was a sensitive.
Swedenborg was one of the leading savants of Europe; it would be absurd to place any of our sensitives on the same intellectual level.
Synonyms: aware
caring
classified
compassionate
nesh
precise
tender
Antonyms: insensitive
nonsensitive
resistant
stoic
uncaring
Related words: sense
Derived words: barosensitive
case sensitive
chemosensitive
cold-sensitive
context-sensitive
cryosensitive
ecosensitive
electrosensitive
extrasensitive
hemosensitive
highly sensitive person
hydrosensitive
hygrosensitive
hyposensitive
immunosensitive
magnetosensitive
mechanosensitive
metabosensitive
meteorosensitive
morphosensitive
osmosensitive
oversensitive
pansensitive
pharmacosensitive
phosphosensitive
photosensitive
piezosensitive
pressure-sensitive
pseudosensitive
psychrosensitive
radiosensitive
Sensex
sensitive compartmented information
sensitive female chord progression
sensitive fern
sensitively
sensitiveness
sensitive pea
sensitivity
sensitivize
sensitize
serosensitive
somatosensitive
subsensitive
supersensitive
thermohygrosensitive
thermosensitive
triplosensitive
ultrasensitive
undersensitive
unsensitive
viscerosensitive
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