Meanings
comparative more extrasensitive · superlative most extrasensitive
- Highly or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive.
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The Food and Drug Administration requires that cosmetics makers make sure that their products are safe. And because each synthetic ingredient is typically used in a small amount, product users experience very low levels of exposure. Some synthetic ingredients, however, can be irritating to extrasensitive skin.
2005 October 20, Jessica Merrill, “Is It Organic? Well, Maybe”, in The New York Times
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extrasensitive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extrasensitive
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