Definitions for sensitive

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sensitive sen·si·tive

Spelling: [sen-si-tiv]

IPA: /ˈsɛn sɪ tɪv/

Sensitive is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 207 anagrams from letters in sensitive (eeiinsstv).

Definitions for sensitive

adjective

1. endowed with sensation; having perception through the senses.
2. readily or excessively affected by external agencies or influences.
3. having acute mental or emotional sensibility; aware of and responsive to the feelings of others.
4. easily pained, annoyed, etc.
5. pertaining to or connected with the senses or sensation.
6. Physiology. having a low threshold of sensation or feeling.
7. responding to stimuli, as leaves that move when touched.
8. highly responsive to certain agents, as photographic plates, films, or paper.
9. affected or likely to be affected by a specified stimulus (used in combination):
10. involving work, duties, or information of a highly secret or delicate nature, especially in government:
11. requiring tact or caution; delicate; touchy:
12. constructed to indicate, measure, or be affected by small amounts or changes, as a balance or thermometer.
13. Radio. easily affected by external influences, especially by radio waves.

noun

1. a person who is sensitive.
2. a person with psychic powers; medium.

Origin of sensitive

1350-1400; Medieval Latin sēnsitīvus, irregular formation on Latin sēns-, past participle stem of sentīre to sense (see Examples for sensitive

Her sensitive nostrils dilated, her brain worked like a machine.

Had Cornelius been sensitive, he must have felt he was omitted.

But they are also sensitive to pressure and attention from the West.

He was a sensitive man, and did not realize that others were sometimes as shy as himself.

For a man's heart is sensitive in proportion to its greatness.

"Now you are angry with me," exclaimed the sensitive maiden; and she burst into tears.

And the Gävle Goat, apparently a sensitive creature, took the destruction hard.

On the show, we had to find a way to navigate that in a sensitive way.

sensitive subjects are met with a short burst of laughter, and serious answers are sandwiched between a piercing gaze.

The expo is introduced by Mayor Anne Hildalgo, who describes it as a “sensitive reading of the upheavals in French society.”