Sensitive
['sensɪtɪv] or ['sɛnsətɪv]
Definition
(adj.) of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security .
(adj.) hurting; 'the tender spot on his jaw' .
(adj.) responsive to physical stimuli; 'a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch'; 'a sensitive voltmeter'; 'sensitive skin'; 'sensitive to light' .
(adj.) being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others; 'sensitive to the local community and its needs' .
Editor: William--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.
(a.) Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.
(a.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
(a.) Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.
(a.) Serving to affect the sense; sensible.
(a.) Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
Typed by Dominic
Synonyms and Synonymous
a.. [1]. Sentient, perceptive.[2]. Impressible, easily affected.
Edited by Cary
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Sentient, perceptive, impressible, easily_affected
ANT:Unimpressible, {not_easily_affected}
Inputed by Dennis
Examples
- Yet it was a hard time for sensitive, high-spirited Jo, who meant so well and had apparently done so ill. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Attach a closely wound coil to a sensitive galvanometer (Fig. 237); naturally there is no deflection of the galvanometer needle, because there is no current in the wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Numerous attempts were consequently made to obtain a more sensitive material. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The silver, being sensitive to the action of light, is there to record the image. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To obtain a true photograph, the negative is placed on a piece of sensitive photographic paper, or paper coated with a silver salt in the same manner as the plate and films. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The daguerreotype was made on a thin sheet of copper, silver plated on one side, polished to a high degree of brilliancy, and made sensitive by exposing it to the fumes of iodine. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Does it strike too cold on that sensitive place? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- He abandoned the resin as a sensitive material, and went back to the salts of silver. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- He did this in an attempt to destroy Jewry, but indeed he made Jewry stronger by destroying its one sensitive and vulnerable point. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The van der Luydens were morbidly sensitive to any criticism of their secluded existence. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The funny part of it was that I never thought in those days that a carbon filament would answer, because a fine hair of carbon was so sensitive to oxidation. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He started up red (for he was as sensitive to ridicule as any girl). Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I should have expected you to be very sensitive to the beautiful everywhere. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For old Mr. Turveydrop's deportment is very beautiful, you know, Esther, said Caddy, and his feelings are extremely sensitive. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- This device not only worked with great rapidity, but was extremely sensitive, and would respond to currents too weak to affect the most delicate electromagnetic relay. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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