1Extremely quick to detect or respond to slight changes, signals, or influences.
supersensitive, low-noise antennas
the brain becomes supersensitive to dopamine
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During your life hormonal fluctuations occur and migraine sufferers tend to be supersensitive to those.
Doped-up athletes combined with supersensitive dope detection equipment is going to turn the games upside-down.
Having the built-in brain apparatus supersensitive to negativity means that the same bias also is at work in every sphere of our lives at all times.
Certain serotonin receptors may be supersensitive, which may contribute to repetitive behaviors.
Some bats seem to either fly too high to be trapped often or have supersensitive echolocation skills that help them avoid capture.
Brown conjectured that sharks use their supersensitive gel to detect these subtle boundaries.
If you have supersensitive receptors, you're more susceptible to sensory overload.
He possessed both an indomitable will and supersensitive antennae attuned to the political airways.
Computer hackers, electronic bugs and supersensitive microphones threaten to pierce the Vatican's thick walls next week when cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel to name a papal successor.
Even with my supersensitive nose, I can't smell the slightest bit of trouble here!
2Easily offended or upset.
celebrities can be supersensitive people living stressful lives
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Thirteen-year-olds alternate between thoughtlessly lashing out at the people around them and being supersensitive about the criticism of others.
It is also true that some children are supersensitive, easily offended, and quickly angered.
He hit out at "supersensitive" villagers.
Supersensitive, he registered every slight, however effectively his feelings were concealed.
He's instinctive, supermacho and supersensitive.
Such doubts, of course, contribute to a boy's insecurity about himself and may make him supersensitive to criticism.
He believes that "supersensitive" young women may find Plath liberating because she attempts to resist traditional female roles, all the while struggling against her ingrained perfectionism.
At times, you're supersensitive - crying one minute and laughing the next.
MJ is supersensitive about everything.
Supersensitive about his reputation as a minister, he was being sued by creditors, sought by the sheriff, even threatened with jail.