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Synonyms for sensitive
ˈsɛn sɪ tɪvsen·si·tive
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Wiktionary
sensitiveadjective
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caring, tender, precise, compassionate, awareAntonyms:
stoic, uncaring, resistant, insensitivesensitiveadjective
Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
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aware, compassionate, caring, precise, tenderAntonyms:
stoic, uncaring, insensitive, resistantsensitiveadjective
Responsive to stimuli.
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precise, aware, caring, compassionate, tenderAntonyms:
stoic, uncaring, insensitive, resistantsensitiveadjective
Of a person, easily offended, upset or hurt.
My friend Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.
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aware, precise, caring, tender, compassionateAntonyms:
insensitive, resistant, stoic, uncaringsensitiveadjective
Of an issue, capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.
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tender, precise, caring, compassionate, awareAntonyms:
uncaring, resistant, stoic, insensitivesensitiveadjective
Accurate (instrument)
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caring, tender, precise, compassionate, awareAntonyms:
insensitive, resistant, uncaring, stoic
English Synonyms and Antonyms
sensitive
Fine (Latin finis, end) denotes that which has been brought to a full end, finished. From this root-sense many derived meanings branch out, causing words quite remote from each other to be alike synonyms of fine. That which is truly finished, brought to an ideal end, is excellent of its kind, and beautiful, if a thing that admits of beauty; as, a fine house, fine trees, a fine woman, a fine morning; if a thing that admits of the removal of impurities, it is not finished till these are removed, and hence fine signifies clarified, clear, pure, refined; as, fine gold. That which is finished is apt to be polished, smooth to the touch, minutely exact in outline; hence fine comes to be a synonym for all words like dainty, delicate, exquisite; as, fine manners, a fine touch, fine perceptions. As that which is delicate is apt to be small, by an easy extension of meaning fine becomes a synonym for slender, slight, minute, comminuted; as, a fine thread, fine sand; or for filmy, tenuous, thin; as, a fine lace, fine wire; and as a thin edge is keen, sharp, fine becomes also a synonym for these words; as, a fine point, a fine edge. Compare BEAUTIFUL; MINUTE.
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beautiful, clarified, clear, comminuted, dainty, delicate, elegant, excellent, exquisite, fine, gauzy, handsome, keen, minute, nice, polished, pure, refined, sharp, slender, slight, small, smooth, splendid, subtile, subtle, tenuous, thinAntonyms:
big, blunt, clumsy, coarse, great, heavy, huge, immense, large, rude, stout, thick
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
sensitive
Synonyms:
sentient, perceptive, impressible, easily affectedAntonyms:
unimpressible, not easily affected
Princeton's WordNet
medium, spiritualist, sensitiveadjective
someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
"he consulted several mediums"
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spiritualist, mass medium, metier, medium, culture mediumAntonyms:
thick-skinned, tough-skinned, unaffected(p), unclassified, pachydermatous, insensitive, indurate, dull, dead, numb(p), insensible(p), painless, unreactive, soulless, dead(p), deadened, calloussensitiveadjective
responsive to physical stimuli
"a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"
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tender, raw, sensible, soreAntonyms:
thick-skinned, dull, dead(p), painless, unaffected(p), dead, numb(p), insensible(p), tough-skinned, unclassified, callous, unreactive, insensitive, soulless, indurate, pachydermatous, deadenedsensitiveadjective
being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others
"sensitive to the local community and its needs"
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tender, raw, sensible, soreAntonyms:
deadened, unaffected(p), pachydermatous, dead(p), painless, dead, soulless, numb(p), callous, indurate, unreactive, insensible(p), dull, tough-skinned, thick-skinned, unclassified, insensitivesensible, sensitiveadjective
able to feel or perceive
"even amoeba are sensible creatures"; "the more sensible parts of the skin"
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tender, reasonable, raw, sensible, soreAntonyms:
dull, pachydermatous, unaffected(p), unreactive, tough-skinned, dead, insensitive, numb(p), painless, thick-skinned, deadened, indurate, soulless, unclassified, dead(p), insensible(p), calloussensitive, sore, raw, tenderadjective
hurting
"the tender spot on his jaw"
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stark naked, tender, bare-assed, new, sore, fond, cranky, crank, raw, warm, naked as a jaybird, unsanded, natural, peeled, in the altogether, painful, cutting, in the raw, affectionate, crude, mad, tippy, afflictive, bare-ass, raw(a), rude(a), naked, bleak, huffy, lovesome, sensible, untoughened, in the buffAntonyms:
callous, tough-skinned, indurate, dead, insensible(p), soulless, deadened, unclassified, numb(p), dull, pachydermatous, unreactive, thick-skinned, insensitive, unaffected(p), painless, dead(p)sensitiveadjective
of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security
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tender, raw, sensible, soreAntonyms:
dull, painless, tough-skinned, pachydermatous, unclassified, indurate, deadened, dead(p), unaffected(p), soulless, insensible(p), numb(p), insensitive, thick-skinned, callous, unreactive, dead
Dictionary of English Synonymes
sensitive
Synonyms:
a.. sentient, perceptivesensitive
Synonyms:
impressible, easily affected
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
sensitiveadjective
Synonyms:
susceptible, impressible, sentient, irritable
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "sensitive":
delicate, susceptible, vulnerable, fragile, confidential, responsive, sensible, tricky, sensitivity, thorny, appreciable, significant, sentient, receptive, sore, emotive, critical, difficult, noticeable, sensitized, aware, awkward, lowercase, touchy, substantial
Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD
sensitive
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See Piezoelectric sensitive
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How to use sensitive in a sentence?
For monetary transmission to occur, lending rates have to be sensitive to the policy rate, it was observed that base rates based on marginal cost of funds are more sensitive to changes in the policy rates.
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Many of the criminal suspects have confirmed that the Fengrui legal firm pursued sensitive cases, and if they were not sensitive or prominent enough, they would think of ways to stir them up.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Translations for sensitive
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- حساسArabic
- citlivý, senzitivníCzech
- følsomDanish
- sensibel, empfindlichGerman
- ευαίσθητοςGreek
- sentemaEsperanto
- susceptible, sensitivo, sensibleSpanish
- sentibera, hunkiberaBasque
- herkkätunteinen, arka, herkkä, arkaluonteinenFinnish
- sensibleFrench
- kényes, érzékenyHungarian
- sensibile, delicatoItalian
- 敏感, 繊細Japanese
- hūkokikokiMāori
- wrażliwyPolish
- susceptibil, impresionabil, de precizie, receptiv, simțitor, sensibilRomanian
- ранимый, чуткий, восприимчивый, точный, конфиденциальный, чувствительный, щекотливыйRussian
- občutljivSlovene
- känsligSwedish
- முக்கியTamil
- حساسUrdu
- nhạy cảmVietnamese
- 敏感Chinese
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