1. Quick to detect or respond to slight changes or influence
   "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"
    
2. Being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others
   "sensitive to the local community and its needs"
    
3. Easily affected, hurt, or damaged
   "Sensitive skin"
    
4. Able to feel or perceive
   "even amoeba are sensitive creatures";
   - sensible
    
5. (of body tissue or a wound) painful, inflamed, or easily hurt
   "the sensitive spot on his jaw";
   - sore, raw, tender
    
6. Of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security
   "The diplomat handled sensitive information on a daily basis"
    
7. Requiring careful handling to avoid offence or controversy
   "Race relations are a sensitive topic"

1. Someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
   "The sensitive claimed to communicate messages from departed loved ones";
   - medium, spiritualist

Derived forms: sensitives

See also: alive, aware, classified, cognisant [Brit], cognizant, conscious, delicate, erogenous, excitable, feisty, forthcoming, huffy, irritable, light-sensitive, miffy [informal], nociceptive, oversensitive, painful, photosensitive, radiosensitive, reactive, responsive, sensitiveness, sensitivity, susceptible, thin-skinned, touchy

Type of: psychic

Antonym: insensitive

Encyclopedia: Sensitive