Synonyms of supersensitive

supersensitive

adjective

as in hypersensitive

Related Words

• hypersensitive
• oversensitive
• sensitive
• ticklish
• tetchy
• touchy
• irritable
• huffy
• peevish
• thin-skinned
• tender
• irascible
• petulant
• testy
• snappish
• waspish
• pettish
• crotchety
• grouchy
• cross
• grumpy
• crabby
• choleric
• stuffy
• cantankerous
• raspy
• disagreeable
• snarky
• prickly
• cranky
• dyspeptic
• querulous
• perverse
• ornery
• stroppy
• snippy
• bilious
• surly
• short-tempered
• curmudgeonly
• cross-grained
• ratty
• quick-tempered
• snappy
• snippety
• ill-humored
• ill-natured
• bearish
• ill-tempered

Dissimilar Words

• amiable
• agreeable
• good-natured
• thick-skinned
• unconcerned
• easygoing
• carefree
• well-disposed
• relaxed
• good-tempered
• understanding
• forbearing
• long-suffering
• obliging
• happy-go-lucky

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of supersensitive

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

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