What does the word sensitive mean?
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Able to receive and transmit a sensation; capable of feeling.
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Reacting to irritation, stimuli, or chemical reagents; as S. ( photographic) plate, S. ( =irritable) muscles.
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1. Capable of perceiving sensations. 2. Responding to a stimulus. 3. Readily undergoing a chemical change, as a sensitive reagent. 4. Amenable to the destructive action of complement. 5. One who is readily hypnotizable. 6. One supposed to receive communications from spirits, a psychic.
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Usually indicative of abnormal quality of feeling. Having feeling.
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Usage examples for sensitive
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The governess's sensitive lips trembled, with fear or with anger, it was hard to say which. – Man and Wife by Wilkie Collins
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He is altogether too proud and sensitive to do so. – Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
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So that the sensitive girl was alarmed and asked: " Is it something that I've done but ought not?" – Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Evelyn Raymond
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