Sensitive

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·adj Serving to affect the sense; sensible.

II. Sensitive ·adj Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.

III. Sensitive ·adj Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.

IV. Sensitive ·adj Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.

V. Sensitive ·adj 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.

VI. Sensitive ·adj 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.