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highly sensitive

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Adj.1.highly sensitive - readily affected by various agents; "a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock"; "a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated"
sensitive - responsive to physical stimuli; "a mimosa's leaves are sensitive to touch"; "a sensitive voltmeter"; "sensitive skin"; "sensitive to light"
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Does a passenger ever feel the life of the ship in which he is being carried like a sort of honoured bale of highly sensitive goods?
The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context
Tickling a fat toad who is not highly sensitive is an amusement that it is possible to exhaust, and Tom by and by began to look round for some other mode of passing the time.
The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context
No doubt he must have been abominably sea-sick and abominably unhappy --this soft and passionate adventurer, taken thus out of his knowledge, and feeling bitterly as he lay in his emigrant bunk his utter loneliness; for his was a highly sensitive nature.
Amy Foster by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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