Antonyms for sensitive
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : sen-si-tiv |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈsɛn sɪ tɪv |
Definition of sensitive
Origin :- late 14c., in reference to the body or its parts, "having the function of sensation;" also (early 15c.) "pertaining to the faculty of the soul that receives and analyzes sensory information;" from Old French sensitif "capable of feeling" (13c.) and directly from Medieval Latin sensitivus "capable of sensation," from Latin sensus, past participle of sentire "feel perceive" (see sense (n.)).
- Meaning "easily affected" (with reference to mental feelings) first recorded 1816; meaning "having intense physical sensation" is from 1849. Original meaning is preserved in sensitive plant (1630s), which is "mechanically irritable in a higher degree than almost any other plant" [Century Dictionary]. Meaning "involving national security" is recorded from 1953. Related: Sensitively; sensitiveness.
- adj impressionable
- adj easily hurt
- "Now you are angry with me," exclaimed the sensitive maiden; and she burst into tears.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- For a man's heart is sensitive in proportion to its greatness.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- Had Cornelius been sensitive, he must have felt he was omitted.
- Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
- Her sensitive nostrils dilated, her brain worked like a machine.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- He was a sensitive man, and did not realize that others were sometimes as shy as himself.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- If your wife was sensitive, you would kill her with your gloomy fits.
- Extract from : « In the Midst of Alarms » by Robert Barr
- This pointed out to him that the wire might be sensitive to sound when in a state of fracture.
- Extract from : « Heroes of the Telegraph » by J. Munro
- He was sensitive about all those chins, and the general bulk which accompanied them.
- Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
- He's so alone, and he's very proud and sensitive, because he feels his loneliness.
- Extract from : « Good Indian » by B. M. Bower
- Her hair was soft and plentiful, and her hands were fine, strong, and sensitive.
- Extract from : « The Village Watch-Tower » by (AKA Kate Douglas Riggs) Kate Douglas Wiggin
Synonyms for sensitive
- acute
- cognizant
- conscious
- delicate
- easily affected
- easily harmed
- emotionable
- emotional
- feeling
- fine
- high-strung
- hung up
- hypersensitive
- impressible
- irritable
- keen
- knowing
- nervous
- oversensitive
- painful
- perceiving
- perceptive
- precarious
- precise
- psychic
- reactive
- receptive
- responsive
- seeing
- sensatory
- sensile
- sensorial
- sensory
- sentient
- sore
- supersensitive
- susceptible
- tender
- tense
- ticklish
- touchy
- touchy feely
- tricky
- tuned in
- turned on to
- umbrageous
- understanding
- unstable
- wired
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