English-Portuguese translations for sensitive

• sensível
  As fronteiras são uma questão bastante sensível.Borders are a sensitive matter.
  . - Esta é uma questão sensível. . – This is a sensitive issue.
  É também uma questão politicamente sensível. It is also politically sensitive.
• sensitivo
• delicado
  Reconheço que a cabotagem é um assunto muito delicado. Admittedly cabotage is a very sensitive subject.
  Os médicos constituem um tema muito delicado, a saúde das pessoas é um tema muito delicado.Doctors are a sensitive issue, human health is a very sensitive issue.
  Períodos de transição: trata-se de um ponto muito delicado. Transitional periods: this is an extremely sensitive point.

Definition of sensitive

• Having the faculty of sensation; pertaining to the senses
• Responsive to stimuli
• Capable of offending, upsetting or hurting
• Meant to be concealed or kept secret
• Accurate; able to register small changes in some property
• A person with a paranormal sensitivity to something that most cannot perceive

Examples

• Max is very sensitive; he cried today because of the bad news
• Religion is often a sensitive topic of discussion and should be avoided when dealing with foreign business associates
• These are highly sensitive documents

Related words

• hypersensitive
• oversensitive
• insensitive
• photosensitive
• radiosensitive
• sensitively
• insensitively
• oversensitiveness
• context-sensitive