SENSITIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sensitively mean? 

• SENSITIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb SENSITIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in a sensitive manner

  Familiarity information: SENSITIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENSITIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a sensitive manner

Context example:

she questioned the rape victim very sensitively about the attack

Antonym:

insensitively (in an insensitive manner)

Pertainym:

sensitive (being susceptible to the attitudes, feelings, or circumstances of others)

 Context examples 

And this was due, I believe, first, to habit; and second, to the fact that they were less sensitively organized.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He glanced at the hand that held the brand, noticing the cunning delicacy of the fingers that gripped it, how they adjusted themselves to all the inequalities of the surface, curling over and under and about the rough wood, and one little finger, too close to the burning portion of the brand, sensitively and automatically writhing back from the hurtful heat to a cooler gripping-place; and in the same instant he seemed to see a vision of those same sensitive and delicate fingers being crushed and torn by the white teeth of the she-wolf.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I was so sensitively aware, indeed, of being younger than I could have wished, that for some time I could not make up my mind to pass her at all, under the ignoble circumstances of the case; but, hearing her there with a broom, stood peeping out of window at King Charles on horseback, surrounded by a maze of hackney-coaches, and looking anything but regal in a drizzling rain and a dark-brown fog, until I was admonished by the waiter that the gentleman was waiting for me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)