sensitive

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/    美 /ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv/|[ˈsɛn.sɪɾ.ɪv]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.
    — [I]t is quite certain that many of their fears were unfounded, and centred upon perfectly innocent people - especially those who were what we now call "mediumistic" or "sensitives".
形容词 adj.
  1. Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
    — The sensitive faculty most part overrules reason, the soul is carried hoodwinked, and the understanding captive like a beast.
  2. Responsive to stimuli.
    — The engine seemed a little sensitive to wet rails, and in consequence the uphill work was not so good north of Dundee as it had been earlier. But I have noted this same "touchiness" on the part of the "A4s", and other modern British 4-6-2s, so that in this respect No. 2006 proved no exception.
  3. Easily offended, upset, or hurt.
    — Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news.
  4. Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting. usually
    — Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates.
  5. Meant to be concealed or kept secret.
    — These are highly sensitive documents.
  6. Being aware of the feelings of others and taking care not to offend them.
    — Thank you for being sensitive.
  7. Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy.
    — The president's untimely statement disrupted some very sensitive negotiations.
  8. Accurate; able to register small changes in some property.
  9. Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism. archaic

词形变化

more sensitive comparative most sensitive superlative sensative alternative,archaic sensitives plural sensative alternative,archaic

词汇关系

近义词
aware caring classified compassionate nesh precise tender
反义词
insensitive nonsensitive resistant stoic uncaring
下位词
hypersensitive light-sensitive time-sensitive
衍生词
barosensitive case sensitive chemosensitive cold-sensitive context-sensitive cryosensitive ecosensitive electrosensitive extrasensitive hemosensitive highly sensitive person hydrosensitive hygrosensitive hyposensitive immunosensitive magnetosensitive mechanosensitive metabosensitive meteorosensitive morphosensitive osmosensitive oversensitive pansensitive pharmacosensitive phosphosensitive photosensitive piezosensitive pressure-sensitive pseudosensitive psychrosensitive radiosensitive Sensex sensitive compartmented information sensitive female chord progression sensitive fern sensitively sensitiveness sensitive pea sensitivity sensitivize sensitize serosensitive somatosensitive subsensitive supersensitive thermohygrosensitive thermosensitive triplosensitive ultrasensitive undersensitive unsensitive viscerosensitive
相关词
sense

词源

词源 1
From Middle French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sensitivus. By surface analysis, sense + -ite + -ive.
词源 2
From Middle French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sensitivus. By surface analysis, sense + -ite + -ive.
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