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Adjective sensitive has 5 senses
- sensitive - responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"
Antonyms: insensitive, dead, deadened, desensitized, desensitised, unreactive, unresponsive
- sensitive - having acute mental or emotional sensibility; "sensitive to the local community and its needs"
Antonyms: insensitive, callous, thick-skinned, indurate, pachydermatous, dead, numb, dull, insensible, unaffected, soulless, unresponsive, desensitized, desensitised
- sensible, sensitive - 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 shrouding mists") }arts of the skin"
- sensitive, sore, tender - hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw"
Antonym: painless (indirect, via painful)
- sensitive - used officially of classified information or matters affecting national security
Antonym: unclassified (indirect, via classified)
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