Sensitive

Adjective

 * 1) Responsive to stimuli.
 * 2) Of a person, easily offended, upset or hurt.
 * My friend Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.
 * 1) Of an issue, capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
 * Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.
 * 1) Accurate (instrument)

Derived terms

 * sensitively
 * sensitiveness
 * sensitivity

Related terms

 * sense

Synonyms

 * tender
 * precise
 * compassionate
 * caring
 * aware

Antonyms

 * insensitive
 * stoic
 * uncaring
 * resistant

Noun

 * 1) One with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.
 * 2) * 2003, Frederic W.H. Myers, Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death Part 2
 * Swedenborg was one of the leading savants of Europe; it would be absurd to place any of our sensitives on the same intellectual level.

Adverbs for Sensitive
morbidly; unusually; unreasonably; curiously; oddly; extravagantly; nervously; timidly; shyly; awkwardly; extremely; unfortunately; unnaturally; foolishly; ridiculously; absurdly; deplorably; distressingly; heart-breakingly; preposterously; terribly.

Thesaurus
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

Adjective

 * Danish:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (evaísthitos)
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:


 * Polish: wrażliwy
 * Romanian: sensibil, susceptibil, impresionabil, receptiv
 * Russian: чувствительный (čuvstvít'el’nyj), чуткий (čútkij), восприимчивый (vospriímčivyj)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Basque: sentibera, hunkibera
 * Czech: ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek: (evaísthitos)
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese:
 * Romanian: receptiv, sensibil, simțitor
 * Russian: чувствительный (čuvstvít'el’nyj), ранимый (ranímyj)
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,


 * Finnish: herkkä, arkaluonteinen


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * Greek: (evaísthitos)
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese: 繊細
 * Romanian: sensibil, de precizie
 * Russian: чувствительный (čuvstvít'el’nyj), точный (tóčnyj)
 * Spanish:


 * : 敏感 (mǐngǎn)
 * : gevoelig
 * : sensible (1)
 * : sensibile
 * : sensibile


 * : 민감한 (min-gamhan)
 * : sensível
 * : känslig (1,2)
 * : duyarlı, hassas

Anagrams

 * investies

Adjective
sensitive



Anagrams

 * estensivi, intessevi