| sensitive | | |
| n. (person) | 1. medium, sensitive, spiritualist | someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead.; "he consulted several mediums" |
| ~ psychic | a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception. |
| adj. | 2. sensitive | responsive to physical stimuli.; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light" |
| ~ responsive | readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion.; "children are often the quickest and most responsive members of the audience" |
| ~ sensible, sensitive | able to feel or perceive.; "even amoeba are sensible creatures"; "the more sensible parts of the skin" |
| ~ delicate | of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely.; "almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments" |
| ~ erogenous | sensitive to sexual stimulation. |
| ~ excitable, irritable | capable of responding to stimuli. |
| ~ highly sensitive | readily affected by various agents.; "a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock"; "a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated" |
| ~ irritable | abnormally sensitive to a stimulus. |
| ~ light-sensitive, photosensitive | sensitive to visible light.; "photographic film is light-sensitive" |
| ~ radiosensitive | sensitive to radiation.; "radiosensitive cancer cells can be treated with radiotherapy" |
| ~ nociceptive | caused by or in response to pain.; "a nociceptive spinal reflex" |
| ~ reactive, responsive | reacting to a stimulus.; "the skin of old persons is less reactive than that of younger persons" |
| ~ susceptible | (often followed by `of' or `to') yielding readily to or capable of.; "susceptible to colds"; "susceptible of proof" |
| adj. | 3. sensitive | being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others.; "sensitive to the local community and its needs" |
| ~ responsive | readily reacting or replying to people or events or stimuli; showing emotion.; "children are often the quickest and most responsive members of the audience" |
| ~ alive | (followed by `to' or `of') aware of.; "is alive to the moods of others" |
| ~ huffy, thin-skinned, touchy, feisty | quick to take offense. |
| ~ oversensitive | unduly sensitive or thin-skinned. |
| adj. | 4. sensible, sensitive | able to feel or perceive.; "even amoeba are sensible creatures"; "the more sensible parts of the skin" |
| ~ aware, cognisant, cognizant | (sometimes followed by `of') having or showing knowledge or understanding or realization or perception.; "was aware of his opponent's hostility"; "became aware of her surroundings"; "aware that he had exceeded the speed limit" |
| ~ conscious | knowing and perceiving; having awareness of surroundings and sensations and thoughts.; "remained conscious during the operation"; "conscious of his faults"; "became conscious that he was being followed" |
| ~ sensitive | responsive to physical stimuli.; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light" |
| adj. | 5. raw, sensitive, sore, tender | hurting.; "the tender spot on his jaw" |
| ~ painful | causing physical or psychological pain.; "worked with painful slowness" |
| adj. | 6. sensitive | of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security. |
| ~ classified | official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation.; "thousands of classified documents have now been declassified" |
| dispute | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. conflict, difference, difference of opinion, dispute | a disagreement or argument about something important.; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats" |
| ~ disagreement | the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing. |
| ~ collision | a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals.; "a collision of interests" |
| ~ arguing, contestation, controversy, disceptation, argument, contention, disputation, tilt | a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement.; "they were involved in a violent argument" |
| ~ gap | a difference (especially an unfortunate difference) between two opinions or two views or two situations. |
| ~ dustup, quarrel, run-in, wrangle, row, words | an angry dispute.; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" |
| n. (act) | 2. contravention, dispute | coming into conflict with. |
| ~ resistance | group action in opposition to those in power. |
| v. (communication) | 3. challenge, dispute, gainsay | take exception to.; "She challenged his claims" |
| ~ call | challenge the sincerity or truthfulness of.; "call the speaker on a question of fact" |
| ~ call into question, oppugn, question | challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of.; "We must question your judgment in this matter" |
| ~ call | challenge (somebody) to make good on a statement; charge with or censure for an offense.; "He deserves to be called on that" |
| ~ contest, repugn, contend | to make the subject of dispute, contention, or litigation.; "They contested the outcome of the race" |
| v. (communication) | 4. altercate, argufy, dispute, quarrel, scrap | have a disagreement over something.; "We quarreled over the question as to who discovered America"; "These two fellows are always scrapping over something" |
| ~ argue, contend, debate, fence | have an argument about something. |
| ~ brawl, wrangle | to quarrel noisily, angrily or disruptively.; "The bar keeper threw them out, but they continued to wrangle on down the street" |
| ~ spat | engage in a brief and petty quarrel. |
| ~ polemicise, polemicize, polemise, polemize | engage in a controversy.; "The two historians polemicized for years" |
| ~ fall out | have a breach in relations.; "We fell out over a trivial question" |
| tiff | | |
| n. (communication) | 1. bicker, bickering, fuss, pettifoggery, spat, squabble, tiff | a quarrel about petty points. |
| ~ dustup, quarrel, run-in, wrangle, row, words | an angry dispute.; "they had a quarrel"; "they had words" |
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