Word Meanings - SUPERSENSITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to SUPERSENSITIVE)

• SENSITIVE
  1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
• MORBIDLY
  In a morbid manner.
• INSENSITIVE
  Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility. Tillotson. Ruskin.
• NONSENSITIVE
  Not sensitive; wanting sense or perception; not easily affected.
• SUPERSENSITIVE
  Excessively sensitive; morbidly sensitive. -- Su`per*sen"si*tive*ness, n.