Antonyms for hypersensitive
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : hahy-per-sen-si-tiv |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌhaɪ pərˈsɛn sɪ tɪv |
- callous
- calm
- certain
- collected
- constant
- dependable
- easy
- easy-going
- easygoing
- experienced
- firm
- happy
- hard
- healthy
- heartless
- ignorant
- impassive
- imprecise
- indifferent
- insensitive
- laid-back
- loose
- mature
- numb
- OK
- older
- peaceful
- pleased
- predictable
- reliable
- rough
- safe
- stable
- steadfast
- steady
- strong
- sure
- thick-skinned
- tolerant
- tough
- unaware
- uncaring
- unchanging
- unfeeling
- unflappable
- unloving
- unpained
- unresponsive
- unsusceptible
- unvarying
Definition of hypersensitive
Origin :- 1827, a hybrid from hyper- + sensitive. Related: Hypersensitivity.
- As in sensitive : adj impressionable
- As in temperamental : adj angry most of the time; moody
- As in tender : adj painful, sore
- As in thin-skinned : adj easily hurt
- As in touchy : adj easily offended
- As in susceptive : adj sensitive
- As in allergic : adj having a reaction to food, material, etc.
- It was no time for Clancy to be hypersensitive about Vandervent's honor.
- Extract from : « Find the Woman » by Arthur Somers Roche
- A conscience newly aroused by her terrible tragedy and hypersensitive?
- Extract from : « Clark's Field » by Robert Herrick
- He is hypersensitive and emotional, not argumentative and judicial.
- Extract from : « Victor Hugo: His Life and Works » by G. Barnett Smith
- Radowitz, in all matters connected with money, was hypersensitive and touchy.
- Extract from : « Lady Connie » by Mrs. Humphry Ward
- The bald stubby man waddling forward looked neither calloused nor hypersensitive.
- Extract from : « The Trial of Callista Blake » by Edgar Pangborn
- In the result Chichikov received not only his papers, but also some warm clothing for his hypersensitive limbs.
- Extract from : « Dead Souls » by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
- Hypersensitive from her convent upbringing she knew intuitively when he entered a room or left it.
- Extract from : « The Shadow of the East » by E. M. Hull
- Since metallic mass affected the hypersensitive instruments the bubble had been made as small and light as possible.
- Extract from : « The Nothing Equation » by Tom Godwin
- Its defects became monstrously exaggerated to his hypersensitive mind.
- Extract from : « Soul of a Bishop » by H. G. Wells
- This started a small avalanche which went clattering down the cliff with a sound, to our hypersensitive ears, like thunder.
- Extract from : « The Image and the Likeness » by John Scott Campbell
Synonyms for hypersensitive
- aching
- acute
- affected
- averse to
- bad-tempered
- bruised
- bundle of nerves
- cantankerous
- capricious
- captious
- changeable
- choleric
- cognizant
- conscious
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- cussed
- delicate
- dicey
- dyspathetic
- easily affected
- easily hurt
- easily offended
- easily upset
- emotionable
- emotional
- erratic
- excitable
- explosive
- feeling
- fickle
- fiery
- fine
- froward
- grouchy
- grumpy
- hazardous
- headstrong
- high-strung
- hotheaded
- hung up
- hyper
- hypersensitive
- immune sensitive
- impatient
- impressible
- impressionable
- in bad mood
- inconsistent
- inflamed
- irascible
- irritable
- irritated
- jumpy
- keen
- knowing
- mean
- mercurial
- nervous
- neurotic
- ornery
- oversensitive
- passionate
- peevish
- perceiving
- perceptive
- perturbable
- pettish
- petulant
- precarious
- precise
- psychic
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- raw
- reactive
- receptive
- responsive
- risky
- seeing
- sensatory
- sensible
- sensile
- sensitive
- sensitized
- sensorial
- sensory
- sentient
- smarting
- soft
- splenetic
- supersensitive
- surly
- susceptible
- temperamental
- tense
- testy
- thin-skinned
- ticklish
- touchy
- touchy feely
- tricky
- tuned in
- turned on to
- ultrasensitive
- umbrageous
- uncertain
- undependable
- understanding
- unpredictable
- unreliable
- unsafe
- unstable
- uptight
- variable
- volatile
- vulnerable
- willful
- wired
- wired up
- wound up
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