sensitive

1. a. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. Source: opted

2. a. 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. Source: opted

3. a. Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales. Source: opted

4. a. 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. Source: opted

5. a. Serving to affect the sense; sensible. Source: opted

6. a. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation. Source: opted

7. adj. responsive to physical stimuli Source: wordnet

8. adj. being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others Source: wordnet

9. adj. able to feel or perceive Source: wordnet

10. adj. of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security Source: wordnet

11. n. someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead Source: wordnet

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