supersensitised

Questions about supersensitised

What does supersensitised mean?

supersensitised means "having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)".

How many syllables are in supersensitised?

supersensitised has 5 syllables: super-sen-si-ti-sed. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for supersensitised?

Close synonyms include allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, hypersensitised, sensitized. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is supersensitised a common word?

supersensitised is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.