You are too sensitive to criticism.
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Sensitive
//ˈsɛn.sɪt.ɪv//
Synonyms for "sensitive" (241 found)
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Closest matches (49)
Strong matches (72)
discriminatingdiscriminativedisposeddistinctivedistinguishingductileedgeedgyeducatedelasticemotionableemotionalemotionally unstableempatheticempathicerogenouseruptiveexactexactingexcitable
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explosiveexposedextensibleextensilefabricablefacilefastidiousfeelingfesteringfictilefieryfineflexibleflexileflexuousformableformativegalledgivinggoosyhigh spiritedhigh strunghigh-mettledhigh-spiritedhigh-strunghighly emotionalhighly sensitivehot-temperedhothousehumanhyperesthetichyperpathichypersensitiveimpressedimpressibleimpressionimpressionableinclinedinflamedinflammableinfluencedirascibleirritateditchykeenknowingliablelight sensitivelike puttylimberlissomelithe
Related words (120)
lithesomemalleablemediummeticulousmettlesomemiffymobilemoldablenervousneshnicenociceptiveobnoxiousopenoverrefinedoversensibleovertenderpainfulparticularpassible
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penetratingperceivingperceptiveperfectionistperfectionisticperturbablepetulantpickyplasticpliablepliantprecariousprecisianisticpredisposedpricklypriggishproblematicproneprudishpsychicpunctiliouspuristicpuritanicpuritanicalquarrelsomequick-temperedradiosensitiveranklingrawreactivereceptiveredrefinedriskyscrupulousseeingselectivesensationalsensatorysensilesensimotorsensorialsensorimotorsensorysensualsensuoussentientsequaciousshapablesharpskittishsmartingsoftsoftheartedsorespringystartlishstickystrictsubjectsubmissivesubtlesupersensitivesupplesusceptiblesusceptivesympathetictactfultemperamentaltenderheartedtensetestytetchythin skinnedthin-skinnedticklishtinglingtouchytractabletractiletrickyunderstandingunstablevolatilevolcanicvulnerablewarmheartedwhippywillowyyielding
Noun(2 words)
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6 entriesSynonyms
8 entriesRelated terms
1 entriesderived
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12 entriessimilar
37 entriesShowing 16 of 37 words.
Translations
164 translations across 45 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- αἰσθητικός adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
- αἰσθητικός adj (responsive to stimuli)
Arabic
3 entries- حَسَّاس adj (responsive to stimuli)
- حَسَّاس adj (easily offended)
- ذُو إِحْسَاس adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
Armenian
1 entries- զգայուն adj (responsive to stimuli)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- həssas adj (responsive to stimuli)
Basque
2 entries- hunkibera adj (easily offended)
- sentibera adj (easily offended)
Belarusian
4 entries- адчува́льны adj (responsive to stimuli)
- чу́лы adj (responsive to stimuli)
- чу́ткі adj (responsive to stimuli)
- чуллі́вы adj (responsive to stimuli)
Bulgarian
4 entries- обидчив adj (easily offended)
- прецизен adj (accurate)
- чувстви́телен adj (responsive to stimuli)
- чувствителен adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
Catalan
4 entries- delicat adj (capable of offending)
- ploramiques adj (capable of offending)
- sensible adj (responsive to stimuli)
- sensible adj (easily offended)
Cebuano
4 entries- sensitib adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
- sensitib adj (responsive to stimuli)
- sensitib adj (easily offended)
- sensitib adj (capable of offending)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 敏感 adj (responsive to stimuli)
Czech
4 entries- citlivý adj (responsive to stimuli)
- citlivý adj (easily offended)
- citlivý adj (accurate)
- senzitivní adj (easily offended)
Danish
2 entries- følsom adj (responsive to stimuli)
- sensitiv adj (capable of offending)
Dutch
3 entries- gevoelig adj (responsive to stimuli)
- lichtgeraakt adj (responsive to stimuli)
- prikkelbaar adj (responsive to stimuli)
Esperanto
3 entries- sentema adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
- sentema adj (easily offended)
- sentiva adj (responsive to stimuli)
Finnish
4 entries- aisti adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
- aistiherkkä adj (responsive to stimuli)
- arka adj (easily offended)
- arkaluonteinen adj (capable of offending)
French
3 entries- sensible adj (responsive to stimuli)
- sensible adj (easily offended)
- sensible adj (accurate)
Galician
4 entries- delicada adj (capable of offending)
- delicado adj (capable of offending)
- sensíbel adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
- sensíbel adj (responsive to stimuli)
Georgian
1 entries- მგრძნობიარე adj (responsive to stimuli)
German
4 entries- empfindlich adj (responsive to stimuli)
- empfindlich adj (easily offended)
- sensibel adj (responsive to stimuli)
- sensibel adj (easily offended)
Greek
4 entries- αισθητικός adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
- ευαίσθητος adj (responsive to stimuli)
- ευαίσθητος adj (easily offended)
- ευαίσθητος adj (capable of offending)
Hebrew
2 entries- רגיש adj (easily offended)
- רגיש adj (capable of offending)
Hungarian
4 entries- finom adj (accurate)
- fogékony adj (responsive to stimuli)
- kényes adj (capable of offending)
- precíz adj (accurate)
Icelandic
1 entries- viðkvæmur adj (responsive to stimuli)
Indonesian
1 entries- baper adj (easily offended)
Ingrian
4 entries- arkaloontoin adj (easily offended)
- hellä adj (responsive to stimuli)
- herkkä adj (responsive to stimuli)
- herkkä adj (easily offended)
Italian
4 entries- delicato adj (capable of offending)
- ricettivo adj (responsive to stimuli)
- sensibile adj (responsive to stimuli)
- sensibile adj (easily offended)
Japanese
3 entries- 敏感な adj (responsive to stimuli)
- 敏感な adj (easily offended)
- 繊細な adj (accurate)
Korean
1 entries- 민감하다 adj (responsive to stimuli)
Māori
4 entries- hūkokikoki adj (easily offended)
- rahirahi adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
- rahirahi adj (responsive to stimuli)
- āritarita adj (easily offended)
Navajo
1 entries- baa hastiʼ adj (easily offended)
Norwegian
1 entries- følsom adj (responsive to stimuli)
Polish
4 entries- czuły adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
- czuły adj (responsive to stimuli)
- drażliwy adj (easily offended)
- wrażliwy adj (responsive to stimuli)
Portuguese
4 entries- delicado adj (capable of offending)
- sensitivo adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
- sensitivo adj (responsive to stimuli)
- sensível adj (responsive to stimuli)
Romanian
4 entries- de precizie adj (accurate)
- impresionabil adj (responsive to stimuli)
- receptiv adj (responsive to stimuli)
- receptiv adj (easily offended)
Russian
4 entries- восприи́мчивый adj (responsive to stimuli)
- конфиденциа́льный adj (capable of offending)
- рани́мый adj (easily offended)
- то́чный adj (accurate)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- osjetljiv adj (responsive to stimuli)
- razdražljiv adj (easily offended)
Slovak
1 entries- citlivý adj (responsive to stimuli)
Slovene
2 entries- občutljiv adj (responsive to stimuli)
- občutljiv adj (easily offended)
Spanish
4 entries- sensible adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
- sensible adj (responsive to stimuli)
- sensible adj (easily offended)
- sensible adj (accurate)
Swedish
3 entries- känslig adj (responsive to stimuli)
- känslig adj (easily offended)
- känslig adj (accurate)
Tagalog
2 entries- matugunin adj (having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses)
- matugunin adj (responsive to stimuli)
Turkish
4 entries- alıngan adj (easily offended)
- darılgan adj (easily offended)
- hassas adj (capable of offending)
- ince adj (capable of offending)
Ukrainian
4 entries- почутли́вий adj (responsive to stimuli)
- чу́лий adj (responsive to stimuli)
- чуйни́й adj (responsive to stimuli)
- чутки́й adj (responsive to stimuli)
Unami
1 entries- amatamàlsi adj (easily offended)
Vietnamese
1 entries- nhạy cảm adj (responsive to stimuli)
Sample sentences
21 total sentences available.
You are too sensitive to noise.
Source: tatoeba (15929)
I'm very sensitive to cold. May I have another blanket?
Source: tatoeba (21146)
On the whole, the elite are not sensitive to criticism.
Source: tatoeba (21809)
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