sensitive

  • (a) responsive to physical stimuli
    • a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch
    • a sensitive voltmeter
    • sensitive skin
    • sensitive to light
  • (a) being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others
    • sensitive to the local community and its needs
  • (a) able to feel or perceive
    • even amoeba are sensible creatures
    • the more sensible parts of the skin
    sensible,
  • (s) hurting
    • the tender spot on his jaw
    sore, tender, raw,
  • (s) of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security

Nouns

  • (n) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
    • he consulted several mediums
    spiritualist, medium,

Synonyms

spiritualist medium sensible sore tender raw

Antonyms

insensitive insensible

See also

responsive sensible susceptible aware cognisant cognizant conscious

Words of close approximity

sensitise sensitize
sensitive fern sensitively sensitiveness sensitive pea sensitive plant