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Hhtt Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary

Sensitive v. sensible

"The eyes of sharks are very sensitive to light." Instead of this sentence could we say "The eyes of sharks are very sensible to light" ?

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Thank you. No. 'sensible' is 'logical', 'reasonable'.

— CalifJim

  • Thank you.
  • No.
  • 'sensible' is 'logical', 'reasonable'.
  • Shark eyes can't be logical.
  • CJ
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hhtt"The eyes of sharks are very sensitive to light." Instead of this sentence could we say "The eyes of sharks are very sensible to light" ?Thank you.
No. 'sensible' is 'logical', 'reasonable'. Shark eyes can't be logical.
CJ
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hhtt"The eyes of sharks are very sensitive to light." Instead of this sentence could we say "The eyes of sharks are very sensible to light" ?Thank you.
I agree with what CalifJim says, but, as a point of historical interest, "sensible" used to be used like this, to mean capable of sensing. If you search Google Books for "sensible to the light", there are a num
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GPY"sensible" used to be used like this
And still is in the Romance languages. We typically see this 'sensible/sensitive' problem from speakers of Spanish, French, and Italian.

CJ
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"Sharks are not the stupid eating machines that many people think they are. They are very sensitive to everything that is going on in the water around them. And they can react very quickly to the information that their senses bring to them."

Are sensible and sensitive exact synonyms for the above context-"senstive to everything ... " ?

Zoobooks Sharks

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hhttAre sensible and sensitive exact synonyms for the above context ?
Not in modern English.

Read GPY's post again.
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