Dictionary definition for: Sensitive
1. (a) responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa''s leaves are sensitive to touch" "a sensitive voltmeter" "sensitive skin" "sensitive to light"
2. (a) having acute mental or emotional sensibility; "sensitive to the local community and its needs"
3. (a) able to feel or perceive; "even amoeba are sensible creatures" "the more sensible p{ enveloping(a), shrouding(a), concealing,& (concealing by enclosing or wrapping as if in something that is not solid; "the enveloping darkness" "hills concealed by shrou
4. (s) hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"
5. (s) used officially of classified information or matters affecting national security
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