Antonyms for oversensitive
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : oh-ver-sen-si-tiv |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈoʊ vərˈsɛn sɪ tɪv |
- callous
- calm
- certain
- cheerful
- collected
- easy
- easygoing
- experienced
- firm
- happy
- hard
- healthy
- heartless
- ignorant
- impassive
- imprecise
- indifferent
- insensitive
- laid-back
- loose
- mature
- nice
- numb
- OK
- older
- pleasant
- rough
- safe
- stable
- strong
- sure
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unaware
- uncaring
- unfeeling
- unflappable
- unloving
- unpained
- unresponsive
- unsusceptible
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
- 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
- aching
- acute
- annoyed
- bad-tempered
- bearish
- brooding
- bruised
- bundle of nerves
- cantankerous
- captious
- carping
- choleric
- cognizant
- complaining
- conscious
- contentious
- crabbed
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- delicate
- dicey
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dyspeptic
- easily affected
- easily hurt
- easily offended
- emotionable
- emotional
- exasperated
- feeling
- fiery
- fine
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- gloomy
- grouchy
- grumbling
- grumpy
- hasty
- hazardous
- high-strung
- hot
- huffy
- hung up
- hypercritical
- hypersensitive
- ill-humored
- impressible
- impressionable
- inflamed
- irascible
- irritable
- irritated
- jumpy
- keen
- knowing
- mean
- moody
- morose
- nervous
- ornery
- out of humor
- oversensitive
- peevish
- perceiving
- perceptive
- perturbable
- pettish
- petulant
- plaintive
- precarious
- precise
- prickly
- psychic
- querulous
- quick-tempered
- raw
- reactive
- receptive
- resentful
- responsive
- risky
- seeing
- sensatory
- sensible
- sensile
- sensitive
- sensorial
- sensory
- sentient
- smarting
- snappy
- snarling
- soft
- splenetic
- supersensitive
- surly
- susceptible
- temperamental
- tense
- testy
- thin-skinned
- ticklish
- touchy
- touchy feely
- tricky
- tuned in
- turned on to
- ultrasensitive
- umbrageous
- understanding
- unpredictable
- unsafe
- unstable
- uptight
- volatile
- vulnerable
- wired
- wired up
- wound up
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