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Antonyms for oversensitive

Grammar : Adj

Spell : oh-ver-sen-si-tiv

Phonetic Transcription : ˈoʊ vərˈsɛn sɪ tɪv

Definition of oversensitive

As in irritable : adj bad-tempered, crabby
As in sensitive : adj impressionable
As in tender : adj painful, sore
As in thin-skinned : adj easily hurt
As in touchy : adj easily offended
As in susceptive : adj sensitive

Example sentences :

This may seem to be unnatural, arising from an oversensitive and morbid state of mind.
Extract from : « Some Noble Sisters » by Edmund Lee

My nature, unhappily, is an oversensitive one, and is apt to be affected by trifles.
Extract from : « Vendetta » by Marie Corelli

Neither she nor her brothers understood their oversensitive relative.
Extract from : « Against the Current » by Edward A. Steiner

But then, I thought, all this may be because I'm oversensitive.
Extract from : « Steel » by Charles Rumford Walker

I know the value of correct dressing, and I am not oversensitive.
Extract from : « A Woman of the World » by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

But if ambition is oversensitive, moral indignation is ever consolatory, for it plants us on the Judgement Seat.
Extract from : « Diana of the Crossways, Complete » by George Meredith

There were things, too, that troubled the family and made them reserved and inclined to be oversensitive.
Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 » by Charles H. Sylvester

The rigorous altitude of intellect in which she was reared served as a corrective to the oversensitive quality of her imagination.
Extract from : « Turn About Eleanor » by Ethel M. Kelley

The whole self is oversensitive, and the very inflection of a voice has enormous significance.
Extract from : « Applied Psychology for Nurses » by Mary F. Porter

The days that followed were full of emotion for these two people, who were perhaps always ever-serious, oversensitive.
Extract from : « Robert Elsmere » by Mrs. Humphry Ward

Synonyms for oversensitive

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