Synonyms of the word sensitive


SENSITIVEALIVE - AWARE - CLASSIFIED - COGNISANT - COGNIZANT - CONSCIOUS - DELICATE - EROGENOUS - EXCITABLE - FEISTY - HUFFY - IRRITABLE - LIGHT-SENSITIVE - MEDIUM - NOCICEPTIVE - OVERSENSITIVE - PAINFUL - PHOTOSENSITIVE - PSYCHIC - RADIOSENSITIVE - RAW - REACTIVE - RESPONSIVE - SENSIBLE - SENSITIVE - SORE - SPIRITUALIST - SUSCEPTIBLE - TENDER - THIN-SKINNED - TOUCHY

sensitive

  • adj. Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
  • adj. Responsive to stimuli.
  • adj. (of a person) Easily offended, upset or hurt.
  • adj. (of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
  • adj. (of an instrument) Accurate.
  • n. One with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

alive

  • adj. Having life; living; not dead.
  • adj. In a state of action; in force or operation; unextinguished; unexpired; existent.
  • adj. Exhibiting the activity and motion of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.
  • adj. Sprightly; lively; brisk.
  • adj. Having susceptibility; easily impressed; having lively feelings, as opposed to apathy; sensitive.
  • adj. (as an intensifier) out of all living creatues.

aware

  • adj. Vigilant or on one's guard against danger or difficulty.
  • adj. Conscious or having knowledge of something.

classified

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of classify.
  • adj. Formally assigned by a government to one of several levels of sensitivity, usually (in English) top secret,…
  • adj. Not meant to be disclosed by a person or organization.
  • n. (informal) A classified advertisement in a newspaper or magazine.

cognisant

  • adj. Alternative spelling of cognizant.

cognizant

  • adj. Aware; fully informed; having understanding of a fact.

conscious

  • adj. Alert, awake.
  • adj. Aware.
  • adj. Aware of one's own existence; aware of one's own awareness.
  • n. The part of the mind that is aware of itself; the consciousness.

delicate

  • adj. Easily damaged or requiring careful handling.
  • adj. Characterized by a fine structure or thin lines.
  • adj. Intended for use with fragile items.
  • adj. Refined; gentle; scrupulous not to trespass or offend; considerate; said of manners, conduct, or feelings.
  • adj. Of weak health; easily sick; unable to endure hardship.
  • adj. (informal) Unwell, especially because of having drunk too much alcohol.
  • adj. (obsolete) Addicted to pleasure; luxurious; voluptuous; alluring.
  • adj. Pleasing to the senses; refined; adapted to please an elegant or cultivated taste.
  • adj. Slight and shapely; lovely; graceful.
  • adj. Light, or softly tinted; said of a colour.
  • adj. Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.
  • adj. Highly discriminating or perceptive; refinedly critical; sensitive; exquisite.
  • adj. Affected by slight causes; showing slight changes.
  • n. A delicate item of clothing, especially underwear or lingerie.
  • n. (obsolete) A choice dainty; a delicacy.
  • n. (obsolete) A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person.

erogenous

  • adj. Sensitive to sexual arousal.
  • adj. Causing sexual arousal, erotogenic.

excitable

  • adj. Easily excited.

feisty

  • adj. Tenacious, energetic, spunky.
  • adj. Belligerent; prepared to stand and fight, especially in spite of relatively small stature or some other…
  • adj. Easily offended and ready to bicker.

huffy

  • adj. Angry, annoyed, indignant or irritated.
  • adj. Easily offended; thin-skinned or touchy.
  • adj. Puffed up.

irritable

  • adj. Capable of being irritated.
  • adj. Easily exasperated or excited.
  • adj. Responsive to stimuli.

light-sensitive

  • adj. affected by, or sensitive to light.
  • adj. (of substances and surfaces) changing chemically or physically when exposed to light.
  • adj. (biology) (of cells, tissue or organs) able to detect the presence (or intensity) of light.

medium

  • n. (plural media or mediums) The chemistry of the surrounding environment, e.g. solid, liquid, gas, vacuum,…
  • n. (plural media or mediums) The materials or empty space through which signals, waves or forces pass.
  • n. (plural media or mediums) A format for communicating or presenting information.
  • n. (plural media or mediums, engineering) The materials used to finish a workpiece using a mass finishing…
  • n. (plural media or mediums, microbiology) A nutrient solution for the growth of cells in vitro.
  • n. (plural media or mediums) The means, channel, or agency by which an aim is achieved.
  • n. (plural mediums or media) A liquid base which carries pigment in paint.
  • n. (plural mediums or media, painting) A tool used for painting or drawing.
  • n. (plural mediums, spiritualism) Someone who supposedly conveys information from the spirit world.
  • n. (plural mediums) Anything having a measurement intermediate between extremes, such as a garment or container.
  • n. (plural mediums) A person whom garments or apparel of intermediate size fit.
  • n. (plural mediums, Ireland, dated, informal) A half-pint serving of Guinness (or other stout in some regions).
  • n. A middle place or degree.
  • n. (dated) An average; sometimes the mathematical mean.
  • n. (logic) The mean or middle term of a syllogism, that by which the extremes are brought into connection.
  • adj. (obsolete) Arithmetically average.
  • adj. Of intermediate size, degree, amount etc.
  • adj. Of meat, cooked to a point greater than rare but less than well done; typically, so the meat is still…
  • adv. to a medium extent.

nociceptive

  • adj. (of a stimulus) Causing pain.
  • adj. (of a reflex etc) Caused by pain.

oversensitive

  • adj. Having excessive sensitivity; reacting to stimuli too readily; thin-skinned.

painful

  • adj. Causing pain or distress, either physical or mental.
  • adj. Afflicted or suffering with pain (of a body part or, formerly, of a person).
  • adj. Requiring effort or labor; difficult, laborious.
  • adj. (now rare) Painstaking; careful; industrious.
  • adj. (informal) Very bad, poor.

photosensitive

  • adj. having a reaction to, or able to be affected by, light.

psychic

  • n. A person who possesses, or appears to possess, extra-sensory abilities such as precognition, clairvoyance…
  • n. A person who supposedly contacts the dead; a medium.
  • n. (Gnosticism) In gnostic theologian Valentinus' triadic grouping of man the second type; a person focused…
  • adj. Relating to or having the abilities of a psychic.
  • adj. Relating to the psyche or mind, or to mental activity in general.

radiosensitive

  • adj. Having a certain amount of radiosensitivity.

raw

  • adj. Of food: not cooked.
  • adj. Not treated or processed (of materials, products etc.); in a natural state, unrefined, unprocessed.
  • adj. Having had the skin removed or abraded; chafed, tender; exposed, lacerated.
  • adj. New or inexperienced.
  • adj. Crude in quality; rough, uneven, unsophisticated.
  • adj. Of data, statistics etc: uncorrected, without analysis.
  • adj. Of weather: unpleasantly damp or cold.
  • adj. (obsolete) Not covered; bare; bald.
  • adv. (slang) Without a condom.
  • n. (sugar refining, sugar trade) An unprocessed sugar; a batch of such.
  • n. (anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.
  • n. (manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (polished or purged of blemishes arising from the…

reactive

  • adj. that reacts or responds to a stimulus.
  • adj. (chemistry) that readily takes part in reactions.
  • adj. (electronics) Characterized by induction or capacitance rather than resistance.
  • adj. Reacting to the past rather than anticipating the future, not predictive.

responsive

  • adj. Answering, replying or responding.
  • adj. Able to receive and respond to external stimuli.
  • adj. Using antiphons; antiphonal.
  • adj. Susceptible to the feelings of others.
  • adj. (obsolete) Suited to something else; correspondent.
  • adj. (obsolete) responsible.

sensible

  • adj. (now dated or formal) Perceptible by the senses.
  • adj. Easily perceived; appreciable.
  • adj. (archaic) Able to feel or perceive.
  • adj. (archaic) Liable to external impression; easily affected; sensitive.
  • adj. Of or pertaining to the senses; sensory.
  • adj. (archaic) Cognizant; having the perception of something; aware of something.
  • adj. Acting with or showing good sense; able to make good judgements based on reason.
  • adj. Characterized more by usefulness or practicality than by fashionableness, especially of clothing.
  • n. (obsolete) Sensation; sensibility.
  • n. (obsolete) That which impresses itself on the senses; anything perceptible.
  • n. (obsolete) That which has sensibility; a sensitive being.

sensitive

  • adj. Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
  • adj. Responsive to stimuli.
  • adj. (of a person) Easily offended, upset or hurt.
  • adj. (of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting or hurting.
  • adj. (of an instrument) Accurate.
  • n. One with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

sore

  • adj. Causing pain or discomfort; painfully sensitive.
  • adj. Sensitive; tender; easily pained, grieved, or vexed; very susceptible of irritation.
  • adj. Dire; distressing.
  • adj. (informal) Feeling animosity towards someone; annoyed or angered.
  • adj. (obsolete) Criminal; wrong; evil.
  • adv. (archaic) Very, excessively, extremely (of something bad).
  • adv. Sorely.
  • n. An injured, infected, inflamed or diseased patch of skin.
  • n. Grief; affliction; trouble; difficulty.
  • n. A group of ducks on land. (See also: sord).
  • n. A young hawk or falcon in its first year.
  • n. A young buck in its fourth year.
  • v. (transitive) To mutilate the legs or feet of (a horse) in order to induce a particular gait.

spiritualist

  • n. One who professes a regard for spiritual things only; one whose employment is of a spiritual character;…
  • n. (philosophy) One who maintains the philosophic doctrine of spiritualism.
  • n. (spiritism) One who practises spiritism (a.k.a. spiritualism); a believer in the possibility of communication…
  • adj. Pertaining to spiritualism; spiritualistic.

susceptible

  • adj. likely to be affected by something.
  • adj. easily influenced or tricked; credulous.
  • adj. (medicine) especially sensitive, especially to a stimulus.
  • adj. that, when subjected to a specific operation, will yield a specific result.
  • adj. vulnerable; (temporarily) defenseless.
  • n. (epidemiology) A person who is vulnerable to being infected by a certain disease.

tender

  • adj. Sensitive or painful to the touch.
  • adj. Easily bruised or injured; not firm or hard; delicate.
  • adj. Physically weak; not able to endure hardship.
  • adj. (of food) Soft and easily chewed.
  • adj. Sensible to impression and pain; easily pained.
  • adj. Fond, loving, gentle, sweet.
  • adj. Adapted to excite feeling or sympathy; expressive of the softer passions; pathetic.
  • adj. Apt to give pain; causing grief or pain; delicate.
  • adj. (nautical) Heeling over too easily when under sail; said of a vessel.
  • adj. (obsolete) Exciting kind concern; dear; precious.
  • adj. (obsolete) Careful to keep inviolate, or not to injure; used with of.
  • v. (now rare) To make tender or delicate; to weaken.
  • v. To feel tenderly towards; to regard fondly.
  • n. (obsolete) Regard; care; kind concern.
  • n. The inner flight muscle (pectoralis minor) of poultry.
  • n. (obsolete) Someone who tends or waits on someone.
  • n. (rail transport) A railroad car towed behind a steam engine to carry fuel and water.
  • n. (nautical) A naval ship that functions as a mobile base for other ships.
  • n. (nautical) A smaller boat used for transportation between a large ship and the shore.
  • v. (formal) To offer, to give.
  • v. to offer a payment, as at sales or auctions.
  • n. A means of payment such as a check or cheque, cash or credit card.
  • n. (law) A formal offer to buy or sell something.
  • n. Any offer or proposal made for acceptance.

thin-skinned

  • adj. Used other than as an idiom: see thin, skinned.
  • adj. (idiomatic) overly sensitive to criticism; quick to take offence; irritable; touchy.

touchy

  • adj. (of a situation) Extremely sensitive or volatile; easily disturbed to the point of becoming unstable;…
  • adj. (of a person) Easily offended; oversensitive; ticklish.

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