supersensitive

adjective

su·per·sen·si·tive ˌsü-pər-ˈsen(t)-sə-tiv

Synonyms of supersensitive next

: extremely sensitive

supersensitive detectors

supersensitive to criticism

The medicine made her skin supersensitive.

… casually downloaded reams of supersensitive U.S. nuclear-weapons data …—

Mark Hosenball

supersensitivity

ˌsü-pər-ˌsen(t)-sə-ˈti-və-tē

noun

plural supersensitivities

supersensitivity to light

Examples of supersensitive in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The problem is that investors are supersensitive to the Fed’s views. —

James MacKintosh, WSJ, 22 June 2021 Better to stick with your Swedish clogs and Ulla Johnson dresses, and your membership at the food co-op, than to risk the wrath of hungry, countryside-roaming alien beasties with terrible eyesight but supersensitive hearing. —

Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 26 May 2021 Exterminators today are taking a cue from law enforcement and turning to dogs' supersensitive noses for smelling bed bugs, ants, and termites. —

Adam Hadhazy, Popular Mechanics, 9 Mar. 2021 Now, researchers are pushing to build a final generation of supersensitive detectors — or one ‘ultimate’ detector — that will leave the particles no place to hide. —

Elizabeth Gibney, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020 That’s even true for the supersensitive Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), 66 radio telescopes high in the Chilean Andes that work together as a single instrument. —

Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 12 Aug. 2020 Neutrinos can’t escape from black holes, and the supersensitive Super-K will be able to detect a telltale stream of neutrinos that suddenly shuts down. —

Dolly Setton, Discover Magazine, 30 July 2014 See More

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