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

  • (..) - Jim, I won't stand for it. - You won't stand for it? I don't want any part of crucifying this boy. Our steamroller methods are getting too hard for your sensitive soul? The Silver Knight is getting too big for us. My methods have been all right for the past twenty years. Since I picked you out (..)
    1939 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington