extrasensitive

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adjective

Highly or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

adjectiveextrasensitive (comparative more extrasensitive, superlative most extrasensitive)

comparative more extrasensitive · superlative most extrasensitive

  1. Highly or excessively sensitive; hypersensitive.
    1 more example

    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

Origin

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APA

extrasensitive. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extrasensitive

MLA

“extrasensitive.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extrasensitive. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “extrasensitive,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/extrasensitive.

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