Sensitive

  • 101sensitive — Requiring special protection from disclosure that could cause embarrassment, compromise, or threat to the security of the sponsoring power. May be applied to an agency, installation, person, position, document, material, or activity …

    Military dictionary

  • 102SENSITIVE — s. f. Plante légumineuse qu on appelle ainsi parce que, dès qu on la touche, elle replie ses feuilles. Voyez MIMOSA …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 7eme edition (1835)

  • 103SENSITIVE — n. f. Plante de la famille des Légumineuses, qu’on appelle ainsi parce que, dès qu’on la touche, elle replie ses feuilles. Voyez MIMOSA …

    Dictionnaire de l'Academie Francaise, 8eme edition (1935)

  • 104Sensitive — Чувствительный, восприимчивый, быстро реагирующий; Светочувствительный …

    Краткий толковый словарь по полиграфии

  • 105sensitive — Synonyms and related words: accurate, acute, adaptable, affected, agitable, algetic, allergic, anaphylactic, angry, appreciative, attuned, aware, bendable, bending, burning, censorious, chafed, choicy, choosy, cognizant, compliant, conscientious …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 106sensitive — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. perceptive, conscious, impressionable, tender, susceptible, sentient; alert, aware; sentimental. See sensibility.Ant., insensitive, unfeeling. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Tender] Syn. delicate, sore …

    English dictionary for students

  • 107sensitive — sen·si·tive || sensɪtɪv adj. able to perceive sensation, having the capacity for feeling; susceptible to external influences or agents; responsive, reactive; delicate, requiring special care or treatment, touchy; responding acutely to… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 108sensitive — adjective 1》 quick to detect, respond to, or be affected by slight changes, signals, or influences.     ↘(of photographic materials) responding rapidly to the action of light. 2》 having or showing a quick and delicate appreciation of the feelings …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 109sensitive — a. 1. Sentient, perceptive. 2. Impressible, easily affected …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 110sensitive — adj 1. impressionable, susceptible, receptive, susceptive; responsive, reactive, alive to, sentient, sensible, conscious; feeling, intuitive, perceptive, aware, insightful; refined, cultivated, aesthetic. 2. sympathetic, compassionate, concerned …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder