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

  • (..) - Maybe you can still smell it on me. - Listen, sonny... Come on, now. There's nothing personal. Come on, fella. He didn't mean you. Let's not be so sensitive. This sensitivity I can understand. OK, look. Let's stop the arguing. We're only wasting time. Your turn down there. Let's go. (..)
    1957 12 Angry Men