sensitive

/ˈsɛnsɪtɪv/

US pronunciation

American sound/ˈsɛnsɪtɪv/

sensitive

Syllables: 3 syllables
Stress: 1st syllable stress
Vowel: Short i vowel
Ending: Final e often stays silent

sen - si - tive -> sensitive

Myanmar meaning

(adj) ဆတ်ဆတ်ထိမခံ

Full entry

sensitive /'sensǝtÇv/ adj

၁။ ~ (about/to sth ) ဆတ်ဆတ်ထိ မခံသော။ အပြောမခံသော။ အရေမထူသော။ စိတ်ထိခိုက်လွယ်သော။ ကြက်ခေါင်းဆိတ်မခံသော။ a frail and sensitive child ❍ He's very sensitive about his baldness, so don't mention it. ❍ A writer mustn't be too sensitive to criticism.
၂။ ~ (to sth) (approv ) သိတတ်သော။ အသိတရားရှိသော။ စာနာတတ်သော။ an actor's sensitive reading of a poem ❍ be sensitive to the needs of others.
၃။ သတိထားရသော။ ဆင်ခြင်ရသော။ sensitive military information ❍ a sensitive area such as race relations. ❍ SENSIBLE Compare INSENSITIVE
၄။ (က) နူးညံ့သော။ အကြမ်းမခံနိုင်သော။ အထိမခံသော။ the sensitive skin of a baby ❍ A sensitive nerve in a tooth can cause great pain. (ခ) ~ (to sth) မတည့်သော။ ထိခိုက်လွယ်သော။ တုံ့ပြန်ဓာတ်ပြုသော။ be sensitive to penicillin ❍ Photographic paper is highly sensitive to light.
၅။ ~ (to sth) အနုစိတ်တိုင်းနိုင်သော။ ထင်ဟပ်တုံ့ပြန်လွယ်သော။ a sensitive balance/barometer ❍ (fig ) The Stock Exchange is sensitive to likely political changes. sensitively adv
❏ sensitivity /sensǝ'tÇvǝti/ n
၁။ [U] ~ (to sth) အထိ မခံနိုင်ခြင်း။ သိမ်မွေ့နူးညံ့မှု။ ရသခံစားတတ်မှု။ တုံ့ပြန်နိုင်မှု။
the sensitivity of a writer ❍ a case handled with great tact and sensitivity ❍ sensitivity to pain/light/heat.
၂။ sensitivities [pl] အရေမထူခြင်း။ ဆတ်ဆတ်ထိမခံခြင်း။ နာတတ်ခြင်း။ စိတ်ထိခိုက်လွယ်ခြင်း။ take political/local sensitivities into account.
Compare SENSIBILITY ၂
❏ sensitize, -ise /'sensǝtaÇz/ v ~ sth/sb (to sth) (esp passive) တုံ့ပြန်နိုင်မှု နိုးကြားထက်မြက် စေသည်။ sensitize students to a poet's use of language ❍ a photocopier using sensitized paper.

More examples

A new generation of satellites will carry particularly sensitive instruments.
Bats have extremely sensitive ears.
Light-sensitive materials
[sensitive to] : Coral is very sensitive to changes in water temperature.
If I’d known she was so sensitive, I wouldn’t have teased her.
[sensitive to] : Kyle takes his work seriously and is sensitive to criticism.
Conservationists and farmers in environmentally sensitive areas are learning to work together.
Wear rubber gloves if you have very sensitive skin.
Some items on the agenda involve commercially sensitive information.
The issues are controversial and politically sensitive.
This is a case that needs sensitive and skilful handling.
[sensitive to] : The police should be more sensitive to the needs of local communities.

Synonyms

responsive, receptive, susceptible, aware, perceptive, insightful, acute, allergic, awkward, between us, caring, classified, cognizant, complex, confidential, conscious, considerate, delicate, difficult, easily affected, easily harmed, easily hurt, easily upset, embarrassing, emotionable, emotional, exact, eyes-only, feeling, fine, finely tuned, for no other ears, high-strung, hung up, hush-hush, hypersensitive, impressible, impressionable, in confidence, irritable, keen, knowing, nervous, not for publication, not to be quoted, off the record, on the QT, oversensitive, painful, penetrating, perceiving, precarious, precise, problematic, profound, psychic, reactive, restricted, searching, secret, seeing, sensatory, sensile, sensorial, sensory, sentient, sore, sticky, subtle, supersensitive, sympathetic, tender, tense, thin-skinned, thoughtful, ticklish, top secret, touchy, touchy feely, tricky, tuned in, turned on to, umbrageous, understanding, unstable, vulnerable, wired, within these four walls

Antonyms