Usually means: Reactive to stimuli or criticism.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensitive: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sensitive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sensitive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sensitive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sensitive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sensitive, sensitive: Wordnik
  7. sensitive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sensitive: Wiktionary
  9. sensitive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sensitive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sensitive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sensitive: Dictionary.com
  13. sensitive: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sensitive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sensitive (pseudoscience), Sensitive (song), Sensitive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sensitive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sensitive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sensitive: Rhymezone
  19. sensitive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sensitive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sensitive: Free Dictionary
  22. sensitive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sensitive: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. sensitive: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Sensitive: Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
  3. sensitive: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sensitive: Webster's New World Hacker Dictionary
  2. sensitive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sensitive: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sensitive: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  2. sensitive: The Skeptic's Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sensitive: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See sensitively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses.
adjective:  Responsive to stimuli.
adjective:  (of a person) Easily offended, upset, or hurt.
adjective:  (of an issue, topic, etc.) Capable of offending, upsetting, or hurting.
adjective:  Meant to be concealed or kept secret.
adjective:  Being aware of the feelings of others and taking care not to offend them.
adjective:  Important, intricate, and requiring great delicacy.
adjective:  (of an instrument) Accurate; able to register small changes in some property.
adjective:  (archaic) Having paranormal abilities that can be controlled through mesmerism.
noun:  A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive.

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