Synonyms: medium, sensitive, spiritualist
Definition: someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead
Usage: he consulted several mediums
Similar words: psychic
Definition: a person apparently sensitive to things beyond the natural range of perception
Synonyms: sensitive
Definition: of or pertaining to classified information or matters affecting national security
Similar words: classified
Definition: official classification of information or documents; withheld from general circulation
Usage: thousands of classified documents have now been declassified
Synonyms: sensitive, sore, tender, raw
Definition: hurting
Usage: the tender spot on his jaw
Similar words: painful
Definition: causing physical or psychological pain
Usage: worked with painful slowness
Synonyms: sensitive
Definition: responsive to physical stimuli
Usage: a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch; a sensitive voltmeter; sensitive skin; sensitive to light
Similar words: delicate
Definition: of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely
Usage: almost undetectable with even the most delicate instruments
Similar words: erogenous
Definition: sensitive to sexual stimulation
Similar words: excitable, irritable
Definition: capable of responding to stimuli
Similar words: highly sensitive
Definition: readily affected by various agents
Usage: a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock; a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated
Similar words: irritable
Definition: abnormally sensitive to a stimulus
Similar words: light-sensitive, photosensitive
Definition: sensitive to visible light
Usage: photographic film is light-sensitive
Similar words: radiosensitive
Definition: sensitive to radiation
Usage: radiosensitive cancer cells can be treated with radiotherapy
Similar words: nociceptive
Definition: caused by or in response to pain
Usage: a nociceptive spinal reflex
Similar words: reactive, responsive
Definition: reacting to a stimulus
Usage: the skin of old persons is less reactive than that of younger persons
Synonyms: sensitive
Definition: being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others
Usage: sensitive to the local community and its needs
Similar words: alive
Definition: (followed by `to' or `of') aware of
Usage: is alive to the moods of others
Similar words: huffy, thin-skinned, touchy, feisty
Definition: quick to take offense
Similar words: oversensitive
Definition: unduly sensitive or thin-skinned