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sensatory
adjective as in sensitive
Strongest matches
adjective as in sensory
adjective as in susceptive
Weak matches
- acute
- cognizant
- conscious
- delicate
- easily affected
- emotionable
- emotional
- feeling
- fine
- high-strung
- hung up
- hypersensitive
- impressible
- impressionable
- irritable
- keen
- knowing
- nervous
- oversensitive
- perceiving
- perceptive
- precarious
- precise
- psychic
- reactive
- receptive
- responsive
- seeing
- sensible
- sensile
- sensorial
- sensory
- sentient
- supersensitive
- susceptible
- tense
- ticklish
- touchy
- touchy feely
- tricky
- tuned-in
- turned on to
- umbrageous
- understanding
- unstable
- wired
Example Sentences
And then while we—that is, Jenkins and I—were trying to urge him on, out came the note-book again and he scribbled rapidly, muttering audibly: "Labial osculation—extraordinary stimulation—sensatory ganglia—mucous membrane—" "Police!"
"It has no effect upon the motor nerves, but is believed to have a visible effect upon the sensatory nerves."
As a matter of fact I had been listening for perhaps a hundred seconds; listening, not as if with the ears, but with the deeper sensatory nerves.
Retina, a retiform expansion of the sensatory nerves, which receives the impression that gives rise to vision, or visual perception.
Beauty by one definition is the sensatory excitement stirred in people by the rhythm of line, the vibration of color, the play of motion and the surprise of idea.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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