over-sensitive

English

Adjective

over-sensitive (comparative more over-sensitive, superlative most over-sensitive)

1. Alternative spelling of oversensitive
   • 2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “Introduction – The Seventh Sense”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 20:

     The reason it’s worth standing up for punctuation is not that it’s an arbitrary system of notation known only to an over-sensitive elite who have attacks of the vapours when they see it misapplied.