Dictionary.net

used officially of classified information or matters affecting national security

hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"

responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"

used officially of classified information or matters affecting national security

hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"

responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

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.

Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.

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.

Serving to affect the sense; sensible.

Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.

Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

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.

Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.

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.

Serving to affect the sense; sensible.

Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.

Sensitively.

Sensitiveness.

Sensitively.

Having sense or feeling: susceptible to sensations: easily affected: pertaining to or depending on sensation.

SENSITIVENESS, SENSITIVITY.

Sensitively.

Excitable or impressible.

Pertaining to the senses or sensation.

Sensitiveness.

Having sense or feeling; easily affected; having feelings easily affected; pertaining to the senses or to sensation; that affects the senses.

1. Capable of perceiving sensations. 2. Responding to a stimulus. 3. Readily undergoing a chemical change, as a sensitive reagent. 4. Amenable to the destructive action of complement. 5. One who is readily hypnotizable. 6. One supposed to receive communications from spirits, a psychic.

Usually indicative of abnormal quality of feeling. Having feeling.

Having sense or feeling; easily affected; tender.

Quickly and acutely alive to impressions from external objects; having keen sense or feeling; that affects the senses.

Capable of receiving impressions from external objects.

Able to receive or transmit a sensation; capable of feeling, or of responding to, a stimulus.

Possessing sensibility, endowed with keenness of perception.

Capable of reacting against an irritation, such as that caused by a touch, a chemical agent, moisture, or light; said especially of parts or organs that change their form or direction in response to a slight mechanical stimulus. [Lat.]