Synonyms for hypersensitive

Grammar : Adj

Spell : hahy-per-sen-si-tiv

Phonetic Transcription : ˌhaɪ pərˈsɛn sɪ tɪv

Top 10 synonyms for hypersensitive

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Définition 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.

Example sentences :

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

Antonyms for hypersensitive

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