Crossword-Solution: SENSITIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Sensitive | a. | Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. |
| Sensitive | a. | Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected. |
| Sensitive | a. | Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales. |
| Sensitive | a. | Readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays. |
| Sensitive | a. | Serving to affect the sense; sensible. |
| Sensitive | a. | Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation. |
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Sentences with SENSITIVE (5)
Such of you as are now dissatisfied, still have the old Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either.
The open mouth, the drooping arm, the arched knee: they were such a personification of cockiness as, taken together, will never again, one may hope, be presented to eyes so sensitive to their offensiveness.
Consequently, the economy is highly sensitive to fluctuations in international prices for coffee and cocoa and to weather conditions.
Love, being an extremely exacting usurer (a sense of exorbitant profit, spiritually, by an exchange of hearts, being at the bottom of pure passions, as that of exorbitant profit, bodily or materially, is at the bottom of those of lower atmosphere), every morning his feelings were as sensitive as the money-market in calculations upon his chances.
From first to last, in short, Hester Prynne had always this dreadful agony in feeling a human eye upon the token; the spot never grew callous; it seemed, on the contrary, to grow more sensitive with daily torture.
Quotes with SENSITIVE (3)
Artemis: (shocked) Why, Doctor? This is a sensitive area. For all you know I could be suffering from depression. Doctor Po: I suppose you could. Is that the case? Artemis: (head in hands) It's my mother, Doctor. Doctor Po: Yes? Artemis: My mother, she... Doctor Po: Your mother, yes? Artemis: She forces me to endure this ridiculous therapy when the school's so-called counsellors are little better than misguided do-gooders with degrees.
I don't know what I was expecting a vampire's room to look like. Maybe lots of black, a bunch of books by Camus... oh, and a sensitive portrait of the only human the vamp ever loved, who had no doubt died of something beautiful and tragic, thus dooming the vamp to an eternity of moping and sighing dramatically. What can I say? I read a lot of books.
Sensitive," I tried. Sam translated: "Squishy.""Creative.""Dangerously emo.""Thoughtful.""Feng shui." out of 'thoughtful'?""You know, because in feng shui, you arrange furniture and plants and stuff in thoughtful ways." Sam shrugged. "To make you calm. Zenlike. Or something. I'm not one hundred percent sure how it all works, besides the thoughtful part.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, Rock & Roll, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (2002–2022).