sensitive

Meanings

Adjective

• Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
• Responsive to stimuli.
• Easily offended, upset or hurt.
• Capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
• Meant to be concealed or kept secret.
• Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy.
• Accurate; able to register small changes in some property.
• Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism.

Noun

• A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

Related

Similar words

• tender
• nesh
• precise
• compassionate
• caring
• classified
• aware

Opposite words

• insensitive
• nonsensitive
• resistant
• stoic
• uncaring

Narrower meaning words

• hypersensitive
• light-sensitive

Origin

• From Middle French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sensitivus.