English Explanatory Dictionary

sensitive

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
  2. Responsive to stimuli.
  3. Easily offended, upset, or hurt.
  4. Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting.
  5. Meant to be concealed or kept secret.
  6. Being aware of the feelings of others and taking care not to offend them.
  7. Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy.
  8. Accurate; able to register small changes in some property.
  9. Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism.
noun
  1. A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

Pronunciation

sĕn'sĭtĭv /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/ [ˈsɛn.sɪɾ.ɪv] LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-sensitive.wav En-us-sensitive.ogg /ˈsɪn.sɪt.ɪv/ [ˈsɪn.sɪɾ.ɪv]

Word forms

sensitive more sensitive most sensitive sensative sensitives

Etymology

From Middle French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sensitivus. By surface analysis, sense + -ite + -ive.

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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