- hypersensitive
- adjective Date: 1871 1. excessively or abnormally sensitive 2. abnormally susceptible physiologically to a specific agent (as a drug or antigen) • hypersensitiveness noun • hypersensitivity noun
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hypersensitive — index querulous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
hypersensitive — 1827, a hybrid from HYPER (Cf. hyper ) + SENSITIVE (Cf. sensitive). Related: Hypersensitivity … Etymology dictionary
hypersensitive — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ abnormally or excessively sensitive … English terms dictionary
hypersensitive — [hī΄pər sen′sə tiv] adj. abnormally or excessively sensitive hypersensitivity n … English World dictionary
hypersensitive — hy|per|sen|si|tive [ˌhaıpəˈsensıtıv US pər ] adj 1.) if someone is hypersensitive to a drug, substance etc, their body reacts very badly to it = ↑allergic hypersensitive to ▪ I discovered I was hypersensitive to caffeine. 2.) very easily offended … Dictionary of contemporary English
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hypersensitive — [[t]ha͟ɪpə(r)se̱nsɪtɪv[/t]] 1) ADJ: oft ADJ to/about n If you say that someone is hypersensitive, you mean that they get annoyed or offended very easily. Student teachers were hypersensitive to any criticism of their performance. Syn: touchy 2)… … English dictionary
hypersensitive — hypersensitiveness, hypersensitivity, n. /huy peuhr sen si tiv/, adj. 1. excessively sensitive: to be hypersensitive to criticism. 2. allergic to a substance to which persons do not normally react. [1870 75; HYPER + SENSITIVE] * * * … Universalium
hypersensitive — adj. hypersensitive about, to * * * [ˌhaɪpə sensɪtɪv] to hypersensitiveabout … Combinatory dictionary
hypersensitive — hy|per|sen|si|tive [ ,haıpər sensıtıv ] adjective 1. ) very easily upset or offended a ) a hypersensitive issue is difficult to solve and likely to upset a lot of people 2. ) MEDICAL extremely sensitive to certain substances ╾… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
hypersensitive — adjective 1 (+ to) extremely sensitive to any change in conditions, to pain, to certain chemicals, drugs etc 2 too easily hurt or upset by unimportant things (+ to/about): She s hypersensitive to any form of criticism. hypersensitivity noun (U) … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
