sensitive
Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
Other meanings
responsive to stimuli.
Easily offended, upset, or hurt.
“Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.”
Synonyms
- aware
- caring
- classified
- precise
- tender
Antonyms
- resistant
Related words
- barosensitive
- chemosensitive
- cryosensitive
- ecosensitive
- electrosensitive
- extrasensitive
- hemosensitive
- hydrosensitive
- hygrosensitive
- hyposensitive
- immunosensitive
- magnetosensitive
Example sentences
Word history
From Medieval Latin "sensitivus".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “sensitive” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.