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Sensitive \Sen"si*tive\, a. [F. sensitif. See Sense.]

1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the
capacity of receiving impressions from external objects;
as, a sensitive soul.
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2. 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.
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She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny.
--Macaulay.
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3.
(a) (Mech.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or
moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
(b) (Chem. & Photog.) 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.
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4. Serving to affect the sense; sensible. [R.]
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A sensitive love of some sensitive objects.
--Hammond.
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5. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as,
sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by
irritation. --E. Darwin.
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Sensitive fern (Bot.), an American fern ({Onoclea
sensibilis}), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a
slight tendency to fold together.

Sensitive flame (Physics), a gas flame so arranged that
under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly
sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or
become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight
sounds of the proper pitch.

Sensitive joint vetch (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb
(Aeschynomene hispida), with sensitive foliage.

Sensitive paper, paper prepared for photographic purpose by
being rendered sensitive to the effect of light.

Sensitive plant. (Bot.)
(a) A leguminous plant (Mimosa pudica, or {Mimosa
sensitiva}, and other allied species), the leaves of
which close at the slightest touch.
(b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the
sensitive brier (Schrankia) of the Southern States,
two common American species of Cassia ({Cassia
nictitans}, and Cassia Chamaecrista), a kind of
sorrel (Oxalis sensitiva), etc.
[1913 Webster] -- Sen"si*tive*ly, adv. --
Sen"si*tive*ness, n.
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classified \classified\ adj.

1. arranged into classes or categories; as, unclassified.

Syn: categorized.
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2. assigned to a class of documents withheld from general
circulation; -- of information or documents. Opposite of
unclassified.

Note: [Narrower terms: eyes-only; confidential;
restricted; secret; sensitive; top-secret]
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sensitive
adj 1: responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are
sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive
skin"; "sensitive to light" [ant: insensitive]

2: being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or
circumstances of others; "sensitive to the local community
and its needs" [ant: insensitive]

3: able to feel or perceive; "even amoeba are sensible
creatures"; "the more sensible parts of the skin" [syn:
sensible, sensitive] [ant: insensible]

4: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" [syn: sensitive,
sore, raw, tender]

5: of or pertaining to classified information or matters
affecting national security
n 1: someone who serves as an intermediary between the living
and the dead; "he consulted several mediums" [syn:
medium, spiritualist, sensitive]
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sensitive [sensətiv]
empfindlich; fühlend; hellhörig

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sensitive [sensətiv]
sensible

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sensitive

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sensitive
sensibile

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sensitive [sensətiv]
gevoelig; ontvankelijk; receptief
gevoelig; ontvankelijk; receptief; vatbaar
gevoelig; teergevoelig
gevoelig

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sensitive [sensətiv]
impressionável, sensível

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sensitive [sensətiv]
sensible

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sensitive

einfühlsam; einfühlend; fühlend adj
sensitive

empfindlich adj
sensitive

heikel; prekär adj
sensitive

hellhörig adj
sensitive

sensibel; empfindsam adj
sensitive

schützenswert adj
sensitive

zartfühlend adj
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190 Moby Thesaurus words for "sensitive":
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



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