sensitive

Definition

  • adjective: easily upset by the things that people think or say about you
  • adjective: receptive to 'sense' impressions
  • often + 'about'
  • synonyms: sensory, sensible, caring

Examples

  • highly 'sensitive' information [=information that could be harmful if many people knew it; information that should be kept secret]

  • She's painfully/overly 'sensitive about' her looks. [=she cares very/too much about what people say or think about her looks]

  • Now that I'm older, I'm more 'sensitive to' (the) cold. [=I feel colder in cold surroundings now than I did in the past]

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) You can relate to at least one of those things. Right? I'll be in the car. You might want to change your shirt. They're very sensitive to smell. The Mosasaurus was thought to have hunted near the surface of the water... where it preyed on anything it could sink its teeth into. (..)
    2015 Jurassic World