sensitive
(adjective) of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security
sensitive, sore, raw, tender
(adjective) hurting; “the tender spot on his jaw”
sensible, sensitive
(adjective) able to feel or perceive; “even amoeba are sensible creatures”; “the more sensible parts of the skin”
sensitive
(adjective) responsive to physical stimuli; “a mimosa’s leaves are sensitive to touch”; “a sensitive voltmeter”; “sensitive skin”; “sensitive to light”
sensitive
(adjective) being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others; “sensitive to the local community and its needs”
medium, spiritualist, sensitive
(noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead; “he consulted several mediums”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sensitive (comparative more sensitive, superlative most sensitive)
Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
Responsive to stimuli.
(of a person) Easily offended, upset or hurt.
(of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
Meant to be concealed or kept secret.
(of an instrument) Accurate; able to register small changes in some property.
(archaic) Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism.
• tender
• nesh
• precise
• compassionate
• caring
• classified
• aware
• insensitive
• nonsensitive
• resistant
• stoic
• uncaring
• hypersensitive
• light-sensitive
sensitive (plural sensitives)
A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.
Source: Wiktionary
Sen"si*tive, a. Etym: [F. sensitif. See Sense.]
1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.
2. 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.
3. (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.
4. Serving to affect the sense; sensible. [R.] A sensitive love of some sensitive objects. Hammond.
5. Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation. E. Darwin. Sensitive fern (Bot.), an American fern (Onoclea sensibilis), the leaves of which, when plucked, show a slight tendency to fold together.
– Sensitive flame (Physics), a gas flame so arranged that under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight sounds of the proper pitch.
– Sensitive joint vetch (Bot.), an annual leguminous herb (Æschynomene hispida), with sensitive foliage.
– Sensitive paper, paper prepared for photographic purpose by being rendered sensitive to the effect of light.
– Sensitive plant. (Bot.) (a) A leguminous plant (Mimosa pudica, or M. sensitiva, and other allied species), the leaves of which close at the slightest touch. (b) Any plant showing motions after irritation, as the sensitive brier (Schrankia) of the Southern States, two common American species of Cassia (C. nictitans, and C. Chamæcrista), a kind of sorrel (Oxalis sensitiva), etc.
– Sen"si*tive*ly, adv.
– Sen"si*tive*ness, n.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 November 2024
(noun) the fusion of originally different inflected forms (resulting in a reduction in the use of inflections)
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
