Definitions of sensitive
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Sensitiveness.
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Sensitively.
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used officially of classified information or matters affecting national security
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hurting; " the tender spot on his jaw"
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responsive to physical stimuli; " a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; " a sensitive voltmeter"; " sensitive skin"; " sensitive to light"
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Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.
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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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Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
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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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Serving to affect the sense; sensible.
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Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
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Having sense or feeling: susceptible to sensations: easily affected: pertaining to or depending on sensation.
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SENSITIVENESS, SENSITIVITY.
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Having sense or feeling; easily affected; tender.
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Excitable or impressible.
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Pertaining to the senses or sensation.
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Having sense or feeling; easily affected; having feelings easily affected; pertaining to the senses or to sensation; that affects the senses.
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Quickly and acutely alive to impressions from external objects; having keen sense or feeling; that affects the senses.
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Capable of receiving impressions from external objects.
