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say it: SEN-suh-tiv
sensitive is an adjective and noun meaning "responsive to physical stimuli". It is pronounced /ˈsɛnsətɪv/ — SEN-suh-tiv. It carries 6 recorded senses.
responsive to physical stimuli
“a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch”
“a sensitive voltmeter”
“sensitive skin”
“sensitive to light”
being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others
“sensitive to the local community and its needs”
able to feel or perceive
“even amoeba are sensible creatures”
“the more sensible parts of the skin”
of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security
someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
“he consulted several mediums”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sensitive come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.