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hypersensitive
| hypersensitivity
| hypersensitivity reaction
| hypersensitized
| hypersomnia
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hypersensitive
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective hypersensitive has 1 sense
- hypersensitive(s = adj.all) allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized - having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen" Derived forms noun hypersensitivity2, noun hypersensitivity1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
hypersensitive, adj. abnormally or excessively sensitive.
Derivative
hypersensitiveness n. hypersensitivity n.
THESAURUS
hypersensitive
allergic, anaphylactic, delicate, empathetic, empathic, goosy, hairsplitting, high-strung, hypercritical, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, irritable, itchy, miffy, morbidly sensitive, nervous, overconscientious, overcritical, overfastidious, overmeticulous, overnice, overparticular, overprecise, overrefined, overscrupulous, oversensible, oversensitive, oversqueamish, overtender, passible, prickly, refined, responsive, sensitive, skittish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, temperamental, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, ultracritical
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