sensitive Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
spiritualist; medium.
- he consulted several mediums
adjective responsive to physical stimuli
- a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch
- a sensitive voltmeter
- sensitive skin
- sensitive to light
adjective being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others
- sensitive to the local community and its needs
adjective able to feel or perceive
sensible.
- even amoeba are sensible creatures
- the more sensible parts of the skin
adjective satellite hurting
raw; tender; sore.
- the tender spot on his jaw
adjective satellite of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security

F. sensitif. See Sense.

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.
She was too sensitive to abuse and calumny. Macaulay.
(a) (Mech.) Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales. (b) (Chem. & Photog.) 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. R.
A sensitive love of some sensitive objects. Hammond.
Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation. E. Darwin. -- Sen"si*tive*ly adv. -- Sen"si*tive*ness, n.