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supersensitive

[ UK /sˌuːpəsˈɛnsɪtˌɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)
    hypersensitive to pollen
    allergic children

How To Use supersensitive In A Sentence

  • Prolonged attacks of dyspepsia, nervous headaches, chronic granular kidney disease, gout, sciatic rheumatism, middle ear abscesses, above all vertigo and gall stone colic were intermittent or chronic ailments that gradually made him the typical embodiment of a supersensitively nervous, prematurely old man. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
  • Computer hackers, electronic bugs and supersensitive microphones threaten to pierce the Vatican's thick walls next week when cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel to name a papal successor.
  • Brown conjectured that sharks use their supersensitive gel to detect these subtle boundaries.
  • Certain serotonin receptors may be supersensitive, which may contribute to repetitive behaviors.
  • Such doubts, of course, contribute to a boy's insecurity about himself and may make him supersensitive to criticism.
  • He hit out at "supersensitive" villagers.
  • During your life hormonal fluctuations occur and migraine sufferers tend to be supersensitive to those.
  • And many people are so anxious to pre-empt this accusation that they ventriloquize the reactions of Sunni mobs as if they were the vox populi, all the while muttering that we must take care not to offend such supersensitive people. Archive 2007-06-01
  • It was not that she actually regretted her engagement, but none the less she found herself supersensitively conscious of it, and she chafed against the thought of the congratulations and all the kindly, well-meant "fussation" which its announcement would entail. The Hermit of Far End
  • Even with my supersensitive nose, I can't smell the slightest bit of trouble here!
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