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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning feelings and intuition |
| Synonyms: | emotional, emotive, feeling, intuitive, noncognitive, perceptual, visceral |
| Main Entry: | impressionable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easily taught; gullible |
| Synonyms: | affectable, affected, feeling, impressible, influenceable, ingenuous, open, perceptive, plastic, receptive, responsive, sensible, sensile, sensitive, sentient, suggestible, susceptible, susceptive, vulnerable, wax-like |
| Antonyms: | insusceptible, obstinate, stubborn, unimpressionable, unresponsive |
| Main Entry: | merciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, sparing |
| Synonyms: | all heart, beneficent, benign, benignant, bleeding heart, charitable, clement, compassionate, condoning, easygoing, feeling, forbearing, forgiving, generous, gentle, gracious, heart in right place, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindly, lenient, liberal, mild, pardoning, pitiful, pitying, soft*, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant |
| Antonyms: | cruel, merciless, unforgiving, unkind, unmerciful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | sensitive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impressionable |
| Synonyms: | acute, cognizant, conscious, delicate, easily affected, emotionable, emotional, feeling, fine, high-strung, hung up, hypersensitive, impressible, irritable, keen, knowing, nervous, oversensitive, perceiving, perceptive, precarious, precise, psychic, reactive, receptive, responsive, seeing, sensatory, sensile, sensorial, sensory, sentient, supersensitive, susceptible, tense, ticklish, touchy, touchy feely, tricky, tuned in, turned on to, umbrageous, understanding, unstable, wired |
| Notes: | sensible means showing reason or sound judgment; sensitive means responsive to physical stimuli or having the capacity or ability of perceiving with a sense or senses |
| Antonyms: | impassive, insensitive, thick-skinned, unsusceptible |
| Main Entry: | sentient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conscious |
| Synonyms: | able to recognize, alert, apperceptive, attentive, awake, aware, cognizant, feeling, in on, in the right mind, informed, knowing, noticing, observing, perceiving, receptive, recognizing, responsive, seeing, sensitive to, understanding, watchful |
| Main Entry: | soulful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emotional |
| Synonyms: | ardent, deep, expressive, feeling, fervent, fervid, fiery, impassioned, meaningful, moving, passionate, stirred, stirring, tender, touching |
| Main Entry: | willing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeable, ready |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, active, amenable, cheerful, compliant, consenting, content, deliberate, desirous, disposed, eager, energetic, enthusiastic, fair, favorable, feeling, forward, game, go along with, happy, in accord with, in favor, in the mood, inclined, intentional, like-minded, obedient, one, pleased, predisposed, prepared, prompt, prone, reliable, responsible, tractable, unasked, unbidden, unforced, voluntary, well-disposed, willful, witting, zealous |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, unprepared, unwilling |
| Main Entry: | empathetic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | compassionate, empathic, feeling, sensitive, sympathetic |
| Main Entry: | empathic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | compassionate, empathetic, feeling, sensitive, sympathetic |
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