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Sensitive   /sˈɛnsətɪv/  /sˈɛnsɪtɪv/   Listen
Sensitive

adjective
1.
Responsive to physical stimuli.  "A sensitive voltmeter" , "Sensitive skin" , "Sensitive to light"
2.
Being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others.
3.
Able to feel or perceive.  Synonym: sensible.  "The more sensible parts of the skin"
4.
Hurting.  Synonyms: raw, sore, tender.
5.
Of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security.
noun
1.
Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead.  Synonyms: medium, spiritualist.



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"Sensitive" Quotes from Famous Books



... and success as a pulpit orator; and I should not have alluded to him here but for the fact that in early youth, and amid greater expectations of him, he passed away from this life of high aims and poor fulfilments. I think how poor Keats, no doubt morbidly ambitious as well as morbidly sensitive, declared in his preface to Endymion that 'there is no fiercer hell than failure in a ...
— The Recreations of A Country Parson • A. K. H. Boyd
... depute clerks to the Supreme Court, not an elevated position, though one of great respectability. When Mackintosh and Sydney Smith first knew him in Edinburgh, he was enduring, with all the impatience of his sensitive nature, what he called 'a slow, obscure, philosophical starvation' at ...
— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 2 • Grace & Philip Wharton
... his attention from the basket of fruit and made a desperate effort to convey the idea to Nazu, whose bright eyes took in his every significant motion and whose sensitive fingers traced images in the sand that conveyed his own thoughts to the mind of the Martian ...
— Creatures of Vibration • Harl Vincent
... 3: The majority of men follow their passions, which are movements of the sensitive appetite, in which movements of the heavenly bodies can cooperate: but few are wise enough to resist these passions. Consequently astrologers are able to foretell the truth in the majority of cases, especially in a general way. But not in particular cases; for nothing prevents ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... why the hunchback's intelligent, ugly face was familiar to him. He had seen it pictured as often as enterprising news photographers could steal a likeness from the over-sensitive scientist, who would never sit for ...
— Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 • Various


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