supersensitive
Americanadjective
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extremely or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive.
a supersensitive smoke detector.
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Electricity. of or relating to relays that operate on very small currents, below about 250 microamperes.
Other Word Forms
- supersensitiveness noun
- supersensitivity noun
Etymology
Origin of supersensitive
Example Sentences
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Her mother described her as “a very high strung and supersensitive girl who does not seem to understand how to cope with the rebuffs of this crass world.”
From Washington Post
“He loved those sunglasses. He has those beautiful blue eyes, supersensitive to sunlight, so if you saw Noah you knew a pair of shades would be close by,” Matt Shahnavaz said.
From Seattle Times
My senses seemed supersensitive and I was sure I could hear their food going down, their corpuscles moving through their bloodstreams, their alveoli inflating and deflating.
From Washington Post
Researchers are pushing to build a final generation of supersensitive detectors — or one ‘ultimate’ detector — that will leave an elusive dark-matter candidate with no place to hide.
From Nature
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.
From Nature
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