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Sensitive

adjective

1.

Responsive to physical stimuli. "A sensitive voltmeter" , "Sensitive skin" , "Sensitive to light" Antonym: insensitive.

2.

Being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others. Antonym: insensitive.

3.

Able to feel or perceive. Synonym: sensible. "The more sensible parts of the skin" Antonym: insensible.

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

... persecution as that through which Jeremiah passed. However this may be, we gain almost no knowledge of his private life from the book of his prophecies. But Jeremiah, like the apostle Paul, unfolds to us very fully the history of his inward and outward life. With his peculiarly tender and sensitive mind it could not have been otherwise. If he had not woven into his prophecies his own inner and outer life, he would not have written naturally, and therefore truthfully. Through this interweaving of biography with revelation, God has given in the case ...

— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows

... summer full of voices, and therefore it does not so need the sound of rushes; but they are most sensitive to the stealthy breezes, and betray the passing of a wind that even the tree-tops knew not of. Sometimes it is a breeze unfelt, but the stiff sedges whisper it along a mile of marsh. To the strong wind they bend, showing the silver ...

— The Colour of Life • Alice Meynell

... Belasez, but she said no more. She despatched Levina for the scarf which was to be copied, and gave the young Jewess her instructions. The exquisite work which grew in Belasez's skilful hands evidently delighted the Countess. She was extremely kind, and the reserved but sensitive nature of Belasez went out towards her in ...

— Earl Hubert's Daughter - The Polishing of the Pearl - A Tale of the 13th Century • Emily Sarah Holt

... there is a difference between C 64 and C 128 that could never have been anticipated without the appropriate experience. There is, therefore, no such law of these parallel series as there is for temperature and change of volume (say) in mercury. Similar remarks apply to the physical and sensitive light-series. ...

— Logic - Deductive and Inductive • Carveth Read

... Sanghursts, father and son. The youth knew perfectly the faces of both; and as he stopped short, gazing at this stranger with wide-open eyes, he knew in a moment that Roger's malevolent foe was nigh at hand, and that the sensitive and morbidly acute faculties of the boy had warned him of the fact, when he could by no possibility have known ...

— In the Days of Chivalry • Evelyn Everett-Green

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