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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sensitive \sen"sitive\, a. f. sensitif. see sense.
   1. having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the
      capacity of receiving impressions from external objects;
      as, a sensitive soul.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
      1913 webster

            she was too sensitive to abuse and calumny.
                                                  --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   3.
      a mech. having a capacity of being easily affected or
          moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
      b chem.  photog. 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.
          1913 webster

   4. serving to affect the sense; sensible. r.
      1913 webster

            a sensitive love of some sensitive objects.
                                                  --hammond.
      1913 webster

   5. of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as,
      sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by
      irritation. --e. darwin.
      1913 webster

   sensitive fern bot., an american fern onoclea
      sensibilis, the leaves of which, when plucked, show a
      slight tendency to fold together.

   sensitive flame physics, a gas flame so arranged that
      under a suitable adjustment of pressure it is exceedingly
      sensitive to sounds, being caused to roar, flare, or
      become suddenly shortened or extinguished, by slight
      sounds of the proper pitch.

   sensitive joint vetch bot., an annual leguminous herb
      aeschynomene hispida, with sensitive foliage.

   sensitive paper, paper prepared for photographic purpose by
      being rendered sensitive to the effect of light.

   sensitive plant. bot.
      a a leguminous plant mimosa pudica, or mimosa
          sensitiva, and other allied species, the leaves of
          which close at the slightest touch.
      b any plant showing motions after irritation, as the
          sensitive brier schrankia of the southern states,
          two common american species of cassia cassia
          nictitans, and cassia chamaecrista, a kind of
          sorrel oxalis sensitiva, etc.
          1913 webster -- sen"sitively, adv. --
          sen"sitiveness, n.
          1913 webster
see also:
sense sensitive fern onoclea sensibilis sensitive flame sensitive joint vetch aeschynomene hispida 
sensitive paper sensitive plant mimosa pudica mimosa sensitiva schrankia 
cassia cassia nictitans cassia chamaecrista oxalis sensitiva sen"sitively 
sen"sitiveness 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
classified \classified\ adj.
   1. arranged into classes or categories; as, unclassified.

   syn: categorized.
        wordnet 1.5 +pjc

   2. assigned to a class of documents withheld from general
      circulation; -- of information or documents. opposite of
      unclassified.

   note: narrower terms: eyes-only; confidential;
         restricted; secret; sensitive; top-secret
         wordnet 1.5
see also:
unclassified eyes-only confidential restricted secret sensitive 
top-secret 
[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sensitive
     adj 1: responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are
            sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter";
            "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light" ant: insensitive
     2: having acute mental or emotional sensibility; "sensitive to
        the local community and its needs" ant: insensitive
     3: able to feel or perceive; "even amoeba are sensible
        creatures"; "the more sensible p envelopinga,
        shroudinga, 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" syn: sensible ant: insensible
     4: hurting; "the tender spot on his jaw" syn: sore, tender
     5: used officially of classified information or matters
        affecting national security
see also:
insensitive  envelopinga, shroudinga, concealing, concealing by enclosing or wrapping as if in something that is not solid; "the enveloping darkness"; "hills concealed by shrouding mists"  sensible insensible sore tender 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
190 moby thesaurus words for "sensitive":
   accurate, acute, adaptable, affected, agitable, algetic, allergic,
   anaphylactic, angry, appreciative, attuned, aware, bendable,
   bending, burning, censorious, chafed, choicy, choosy, cognizant,
   compliant, conscientious, conscious, critical, delicate,
   differential, discriminate, discriminating, discriminative,
   disposed, distinctive, distinguishing, ductile, edgy, elastic,
   emotionable, emotional, emotionally unstable, empathetic, empathic,
   eruptive, exact, exacting, excitable, explosive, exposed,
   extensible, extensile, fabricable, facile, fastidious, feeling,
   festering, fictile, fiery, fine, flexible, flexile, flexuous,
   formable, formative, galled, giving, goosy, high-mettled,
   high-spirited, high-strung, highly emotional, hot-tempered,
   hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, impressed, impressible,
   impressionable, inclined, inflamed, inflammable, influenced,
   irascible, irritable, irritated, itchy, keen, knowing, like putty,
   limber, lissome, lithe, lithesome, malleable, meticulous,
   mettlesome, miffy, moldable, nervous, nice, obnoxious, open,
   overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, particular,
   passible, perceiving, perceptive, perfectionistic, perturbable,
   petulant, picky, plastic, pliable, pliant, precarious, precise,
   precisianistic, predisposed, prickly, priggish, prone, prudish,
   punctilious, puristic, puritanic, quarrelsome, quick-tempered,
   rankling, raw, reactive, receptive, red, refined, responsive,
   scrupulous, seeing, selective, sensational, sensatory, sensible,
   sensile, sensimotor, sensorial, sensorimotor, sensory, sensual,
   sensuous, sentient, sequacious, shapable, sharp, skittish,
   smarting, soft, softhearted, sore, springy, startlish, strict,
   subject, submissive, subtle, supersensitive, supple, susceptible,
   susceptive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental, tender,
   tenderhearted, tense, testy, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish,
   tingling, touchy, tractable, tractile, tricky, understanding,
   unstable, volatile, volcanic, vulnerable, warmhearted, whippy,
   willowy, yielding





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