Definition of sensitive
- a. - Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the
capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a
sensitive soul.
- 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.
- a. - Having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as,
a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
- 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.
- a. - Serving to affect the sense; sensible.
- a. - Of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation;
as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by
irritation.