supersensitive

Questions about supersensitive

What does supersensitive mean?

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

How many syllables are in supersensitive?

supersensitive has 5 syllables: su-per-sen-si-tive. The stress falls on "sen".

What is another word for supersensitive?

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 supersensitive a common word?

supersensitive 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.