| 单词 | sensitive |
| 释义 | sensitive (once / 224 pages) adjn Sensitive describes something or someone who reacts quickly and strongly. It's often something to protect — like baby skin, government documents, or a fragile ecosystem. Anything sensitive should be treated with special care. It can mean "raw or hurting" when talking about a part of the body. After people visit the dentist, their gums are often sensitive because of the way that big angry lady cleaned their teeth. Sensitive people get their feelings hurt easily. Sensitive documents have big secrets that shouldn't get out. A sensitive tape recorder catches all the little background sounds. Now you should have a sense of the word sensitive. WORD FAMILYsensitive: hypersensitive, insensitive, nonsensitive, oversensitive, sensitise, sensitively, sensitiveness, sensitives, sensitivity, sensitize, supersensitive+/desensitise: desensitisation, desensitising/desensitize: desensitization, desensitized, desensitizes, desensitizing/hypersensitive: hypersensitively, hypersensitivity/insensibility: insensibilities/insensible: insensibility, insensibly/insensitive: insensitively, insensitiveness, insensitivity/insensitivity: insensitivities/nonsense: nonsenses, nonsensical/nonsensical: nonsensicalest, nonsensicality, nonsensically/oversensitive: oversensitively, oversensitiveness/sensation: aftersensation, sensational, sensations/sensational: sensationalism, sensationally, unsensational/sensationalism: sensationalisms, sensationalist, sensationalistic/sensationalist: sensationalists/sense: nonsense, sensation, sensed, senseless, senses, sensible, sensing, sensitive, sensor, sensorial, sensuous/senseless: senselessly, senselessness/sensibility: sensibilities/sensible: insensible, sensibilise, sensibility, sensibilize, sensibleness, sensibler, sensiblest, sensibly/sensitise: desensitise, sensitisation, sensitised, sensitiser, sensitising/sensitised: hypersensitised, supersensitised/sensitiser: sensitisers/sensitiveness: sensitivenesses/sensitivity: sensitivities/sensitize: desensitize, sensitization, sensitized, sensitizer, sensitizes, sensitizing/sensitized: hypersensitized, supersensitized/sensitizer: sensitizers/sensor: sensors/sensorial: sensorially/sensuous: sensuously, sensuousness/supersensitive: supersensitively/unsensational: unsensationally USAGE EXAMPLES“The skin of rosacea patients is very sensitive,” says John Wolf, chair of dermatology at Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine. Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Avoiding computers may indeed be a relatively reliable, if productivity-limiting, strategy for guarding sensitive material. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) A senior DHS official, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive security matter, defended the report. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) 1adj responsive to physical stimuli a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch a sensitive voltmeter sensitive skin sensitive to light Syn|Ant responsive readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion sensibleable to feel or perceive delicateof an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely erogenoussensitive to sexual stimulation excitable, irritablecapable of responding to stimuli highly sensitivereadily affected by various agents irritableabnormally sensitive to a stimulus light-sensitive, photosensitivesensitive to visible light radiosensitivesensitive to radiation nociceptivecaused by or in response to pain reactive, responsivereacting to a stimulus susceptible(often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of insensitive not responsive to physical stimuli unresponsivenot responding to some influence or stimulus insensibleincapable of physical sensation dead, deadeneddevoid of physical sensation; numb unreactivenot tending to react to stimulation insusceptible, unsusceptiblenot susceptible to 2adj able to feel or perceive Syn|Ant sensible aware, cognisant, cognizant (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception consciousknowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts insensible incapable of physical sensation incognizant, unaware(often followed by `of') not aware unconsciousnot conscious; lacking awareness and the capacity for sensory perception as if asleep or dead anaesthetic, anestheticcharacterized by insensibility asleep, benumbed, numblacking sensation insensitivenot responsive to physical stimuli insensitivedeficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive 3adj being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others sensitive to the local community and its needs Syn|Ant responsive readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion alive(followed by `to' or `of') aware of feisty, huffy, thin-skinned, touchyquick to take offense oversensitiveunduly sensitive or thin-skinned insensitive deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive harddispassionate unresponsivenot responding to some influence or stimulus insensibleincapable of physical sensation callous, indurate, pachydermatousemotionally hardened dead, numb(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive dullblunted in responsiveness or sensibility insensible, unaffectedunaware of or indifferent to soullesslacking sensitivity or the capacity for deep feeling thick-skinned, tough-skinnedinsensitive to criticism toughnot given to gentleness or sentimentality 4adj hurting Syn raw, sore, tender painful causing physical or psychological pain 5adj of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security Syn classified official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation 6n someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead Syn|Hyper medium, spiritualist psychic a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception |
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