sensitive
sensitive
adj.
P. εὐαίσθητος.
Impressionable, tender: Ar. and P. ἁ̆πᾰλός.
Being already less sensitive to the grief they each felt at their domestic losses: P. ὧν περὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα ἕκαστος ἤλγει ἀμβλύτεροι ἤδη ὄντες (Thuc. 2.65).
Easily angered: P. and V. ὀξύ̆ς ; see quick to anger, under angry.
adj.
P. εὐαίσθητος.
Impressionable, tender: Ar. and P. ἁ̆πᾰλός.
Being already less sensitive to the grief they each felt at their domestic losses: P. ὧν περὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα ἕκαστος ἤλγει ἀμβλύτεροι ἤδη ὄντες (Thuc. 2.65).
Easily angered: P. and V. ὀξύ̆ς ; see quick to anger, under angry.
SENSITIVE
Quick of sensation *facile sentiens (☞ not sensibilis in this sense). The eye is a very sensitive organ oculi facile laeduntur.
Alive to emotion mollis; qui or cujus animus facile movetur. The sensitive plant *mimosa sensitiva (Linn.).
Irritable mollis ad accipiendam otfensionem (e.g. animus Cic. Att. 1 17 2): irritabilis (excitable): iracundus: facile excandescens: iram in promtu gerens (irritable; the latter Plaut. Pseud. 1 5 33). To be (over) sensitive animo esse molliore; in aliquo est animus mollis
Quick of sensation *facile sentiens (☞ not sensibilis in this sense). The eye is a very sensitive organ oculi facile laeduntur.
Alive to emotion mollis; qui or cujus animus facile movetur. The sensitive plant *mimosa sensitiva (Linn.).
Irritable mollis ad accipiendam otfensionem (e.g. animus Cic. Att. 1 17 2): irritabilis (excitable): iracundus: facile excandescens: iram in promtu gerens (irritable; the latter Plaut. Pseud. 1 5 33). To be (over) sensitive animo esse molliore; in aliquo est animus mollis
sensitive:
I. Capable of sensation: sensĭlis: v.SENSIBLE (II.).
II. Possessing acute sensibility:
1. perh. mollis (an epith. usu. implying a want of sufficient firmness and manliness): cf. Cic. Att. 1, 17, 1, quam mollis animus et ad accipiendam et ad deponendam offensionem (how extremely s.; ready both to take offence and to forgive): so, molle os, denotes a countenance easily blushing: Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 70. So, agilitas mollitiesque naturae, Cic. l. c., denotes a sensitive disposition.
2. simly., tĕner: cf. Cic. Fin. 5, 21, fin., teneriore animo mihi videbare (sensitive to weakness).
I. Capable of sensation: sensĭlis: v.
II. Possessing acute sensibility:
1. perh. mollis (an epith. usu. implying a want of sufficient firmness and manliness): cf. Cic. Att. 1, 17, 1, quam mollis animus et ad accipiendam et ad deponendam offensionem (how extremely s.; ready both to take offence and to forgive): so, molle os, denotes a countenance easily blushing: Ov. Tr. 4, 3, 70. So, agilitas mollitiesque naturae, Cic. l. c., denotes a sensitive disposition.
2. simly., tĕner: cf. Cic. Fin. 5, 21, fin., teneriore animo mihi videbare (sensitive to weakness).