Synonyms for sensitive
ˈsɛn sɪ tɪvsen·si·tive

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1. sensitiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   caring, tender, precise, compassionate, aware

   Antonyms:
   stoic, uncaring, resistant, insensitive

2. sensitiveadjective

   Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.

   Synonyms:
   aware, compassionate, caring, precise, tender

   Antonyms:
   stoic, uncaring, insensitive, resistant

3. sensitiveadjective

   Responsive to stimuli.

   Synonyms:
   precise, aware, caring, compassionate, tender

   Antonyms:
   stoic, uncaring, insensitive, resistant

4. sensitiveadjective

   Of a person, easily offended, upset or hurt.

   My friend Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.

   Synonyms:
   aware, precise, caring, tender, compassionate

   Antonyms:
   insensitive, resistant, stoic, uncaring

5. sensitiveadjective

   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.

   Synonyms:
   tender, precise, caring, compassionate, aware

   Antonyms:
   uncaring, resistant, stoic, insensitive

6. sensitiveadjective

   Accurate (instrument)

   Synonyms:
   caring, tender, precise, compassionate, aware

   Antonyms:
   insensitive, resistant, uncaring, stoic

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1. 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.

   Synonyms:
   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, thin

   Antonyms:
   big, blunt, clumsy, coarse, great, heavy, huge, immense, large, rude, stout, thick

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1. sensitive

   Synonyms:
   sentient, perceptive, impressible, easily affected

   Antonyms:
   unimpressible, not easily affected

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1. medium, spiritualist, sensitiveadjective

   someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead

   "he consulted several mediums"

   Synonyms:
   spiritualist, mass medium, metier, medium, culture medium

   Antonyms:
   thick-skinned, tough-skinned, unaffected(p), unclassified, pachydermatous, insensitive, indurate, dull, dead, numb(p), insensible(p), painless, unreactive, soulless, dead(p), deadened, callous

2. sensitiveadjective

   responsive to physical stimuli

   "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"

   Synonyms:
   tender, raw, sensible, sore

   Antonyms:
   thick-skinned, dull, dead(p), painless, unaffected(p), dead, numb(p), insensible(p), tough-skinned, unclassified, callous, unreactive, insensitive, soulless, indurate, pachydermatous, deadened

3. sensitiveadjective

   being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others

   "sensitive to the local community and its needs"

   Synonyms:
   tender, raw, sensible, sore

   Antonyms:
   deadened, unaffected(p), pachydermatous, dead(p), painless, dead, soulless, numb(p), callous, indurate, unreactive, insensible(p), dull, tough-skinned, thick-skinned, unclassified, insensitive

4. sensible, sensitiveadjective

   able to feel or perceive

   "even amoeba are sensible creatures"; "the more sensible parts of the skin"

   Synonyms:
   tender, reasonable, raw, sensible, sore

   Antonyms:
   dull, pachydermatous, unaffected(p), unreactive, tough-skinned, dead, insensitive, numb(p), painless, thick-skinned, deadened, indurate, soulless, unclassified, dead(p), insensible(p), callous

5. sensitive, sore, raw, tenderadjective

   hurting

   "the tender spot on his jaw"

   Synonyms:
   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 buff

   Antonyms:
   callous, tough-skinned, indurate, dead, insensible(p), soulless, deadened, unclassified, numb(p), dull, pachydermatous, unreactive, thick-skinned, insensitive, unaffected(p), painless, dead(p)

6. sensitiveadjective

   of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security

   Synonyms:
   tender, raw, sensible, sore

   Antonyms:
   dull, painless, tough-skinned, pachydermatous, unclassified, indurate, deadened, dead(p), unaffected(p), soulless, insensible(p), numb(p), insensitive, thick-skinned, callous, unreactive, dead

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1. sensitive

   Synonyms:
   a.. sentient, perceptive

2. sensitive

   Synonyms:
   impressible, easily affected

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1. sensitiveadjective

   Synonyms:
   susceptible, impressible, sentient, irritable

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1. 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

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1. sensitive

   Synonyms:
   See Piezoelectric sensitive
   

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How to use sensitive in a sentence?

1. Freddie Bray:

   Effective and resource-sensitive preventative and curative interventions are pertinent for cancer diagnosis, tailored integration into health planning can serve to reduce the global burden of cancer and narrow the evident cancer inequities between transitioning and transitioned countries observed today.

2. Brian Fitzpatrick:

   We simply cannot outsource our public safety and national security to foreign nations, medical products, protective equipment, pharmaceuticals, emergency response equipment, and all other critical items and materials needed to respond to a national emergency must be produced domestically for domestic consumption, especially during a critical, time-sensitive crisis.

3. Khider Merkir:

   I want to remove the bullet, but it is a sensitive operation, and they ca n’t do it here.

4. The FTC:

   The FTC’s investigation of Amazon’s acquisition of One Medical continues, the commission will continue to look at possible harms to competition created by this merger, as well as possible harms to consumers that may result from Amazon’s control and use of sensitive consumer health information held by One Medical.

5. Junichi Ishikawa:

   The approach to 125 yen takes dollar/yen into politically sensitive territory. Any big gains by the dollar just as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) talks are climaxing could stimulate those on both sides of the Pacific opposed to the negotiations, and the authorities would not want that.