Sensitive
Sensitive adjective - Able to sense slight impressions or differences.
Unstable is a synonym for sensitive in tense topic. In some cases you can use "Unstable" instead an adjective "Sensitive", when it comes to topics like impressionable.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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Regardless, though, she hasn't changed - she's still unstable and sensitive enough to lose control again later.
Source: The End... Or Is It? -
Charlie apparently deserves to be assassinated because he fired an emotionally unstable addict who'd leaked sensitive info from the newsroom.
Source: Series / The Newsroom - Alternatively, I will not be emotionally unstable, as the chance of the above super-sensitive type of characters being seen as hair-pullingly obnoxious by the readers is nothing to be laughed at.
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Unstable and Sensitive. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/sensitive/unstable
Sensitive & Unstable. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/sensitive/unstable>.
Unstable or Sensitive. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/sensitive/unstable.
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