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Supersensitive

Supersensitive \Su`per*sen"si*tive\, a. Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive. -- Su`per*sen"si*tive*ness, n.

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supersensitive

a. Extremely sensitive.

WordNet
supersensitive

adj. having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen" [syn: allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, hypersensitised, sensitized, sensitised, supersensitized, supersensitised]

Usage examples of "supersensitive".

Confident of being warned at need by his hearing, which was normally supersensitive and, when he was engaged as now, keyed to preterhuman acuteness, he went coolly about the business, and at his first step found a portable reading-lamp on a long cord and coolly switched on its hooded light.

He was dizzied, stunned, stupefied, his morbid supersensitive mind reeling, drunk with the intoxication of mere immensity.

It operates on a private, secure, high-bandwidth network and is used primarily to distribute supersensitive reports not available on the other levels.

Like marine creatures on many worlds, the borks were supersensitive to ultra-high-frequency sounds and apparently used them for territorial claims, fights, lovemaking (hard to imagine with something like that, but, then again, there were a lot of borks), and such.

Another toggle, color-coded blue, opened the protective iris shutter of the TV camera lens, which had been kept closed to protect the supersensitive vidicon transmitting tube from overexposure to sunlight.

While that was true, she also knew that the getaways doubled as conjugal visits, since Mike was supersensitive to sound traveling and his business being public.

These are miniature, supersensitive electroscopes, which register the circuits which propel the device in that direction.

Too bad the supersensitive instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope would be struck blind if it looked so close to the moon.