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hair-trigger

adjective

Definition of hair-triggernext
as in hypersensitive

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Recent Examples of hair-trigger The movie had moments of discordant comedy, but Sidney Lumet staged it in his hair-trigger fluorescent vérité style. — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026 There still tends to be more patience on the hoops side as far as hair-trigger firings or Lane Kiffin-style departures. — Justin Williams, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026 His hair-trigger homemade contraption pressured all three major networks into giving Kiritsis airtime to explain his grievances to the public. — Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026 But Halfmann suspects this hair-trigger system is needlessly killing brain cells in diseases like Alzheimer's. — Jon Hamilton, NPR, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for hair-trigger
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hair-trigger
  1. hypersensitive
  2. supersensitive
  3. oversensitive
  4. precise
Adjective
  • Creators described feeling hypersensitive to how their posts performed, and spending more and more time each day monitoring them.
    — Julianna Pillemer, The Conversation, 18 Aug. 2026
  • Blurry vision, a stiff neck, hypersensitive skin, numbness and weakness that would come and go.
    — Erika Edwards, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of hypersensitive
Adjective
  • Across the world, dozens of supersensitive detectors have been installed since the beginning of the Cold War era to detect infrasound waves created by nuclear tests thousands of miles away.
    — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 12 May 2025
  • Whitney Fields, 38, from Austin, was fed up with contacts scratching her supersensitive eyes.
    — Julia Ries, SELF, 9 Sep. 2024
Definition of supersensitive
Adjective
  • Most commenters on the TSR post agreed that Yung Miami meant no disrespect and that Lizzo was being a little oversensitive.
    — Madeleine Marr, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2025
  • The 8th and 9th are full of good energy, but everyone seems to be feeling oversensitive near the 13th.
    — Katharine Merlin, Town & Country, 1 Sep. 2023
Definition of oversensitive
Adjective
  • Researchers led by Daniel Crocker and David Johnston from Harvard University examined carbonaceous chondrite meteorites using precise measurements of three distinct oxygen isotopes.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2026
  • LLMs are great at finding blowups that exist—at searching the infinite landscape of fluid scenarios and plucking out the precise situation that breaks the equations.
    — Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of precise

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“Hair-trigger.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hair-trigger. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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