adj serving to affect the sense; sensible.
2. sensitive ·adj having a capacity of being easily affected or moved; as, a sensitive thermometer; sensitive scales.
3. sensitive ·adj of or pertaining to sensation; depending on sensation; as, sensitive motions; sensitive muscular motions excited by irritation.
4. sensitive ·adj having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.
5. sensitive ·adj having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the mind and feelings; highly susceptible; easily and acutely affected.
6. sensitive ·adj readily affected or changed by certain appropriate agents; as, silver chloride or bromide, when in contact with certain organic substances, is extremely sensitive to actinic rays.