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Sensitive: meaning and example

adjective · In the sense illustrated below

Attentive to other people’s feelings and needs.

Example sentence

“He was sensitive to how nervous the new student felt.”

An illustrative sentence written for Ikigain.

This example illustrates a positive sense or context. The same word can have other meanings; choose it for what you actually want to say.

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