Usually means: Excessively reactive to stimuli, delicate.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypersensitive: Merriam-Webster
  2. hypersensitive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hypersensitive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hypersensitive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hypersensitive: Vocabulary.com
  6. hypersensitive: Wordnik
  7. hypersensitive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hypersensitive: Wiktionary
  9. hypersensitive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hypersensitive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hypersensitive: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. hypersensitive: Dictionary.com
  13. hypersensitive: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hypersensitive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. hypersensitive: Rhymezone
  16. hypersensitive: FreeDictionary.org
  17. hypersensitive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. hypersensitive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. hypersensitive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. hypersensitive: Legal dictionary

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  1. hypersensitive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hypersensitive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. hypersensitive: Medical dictionary

(Note: See hypersensitiveness as well.)

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▸ adjective:  Highly or abnormally sensitive to some substances or agents, especially to some allergen.
▸ adjective:  Excessively sensitive; easily offended.

Similar:
hypersensitized, sensitized, allergic, supersensitive, susceptible, supersensitized, extrasensitive, oversensitive, oversensitized, ultrasensitive, more...

Opposite:
insensitive

Types:
allergic, intolerant, more...

Phrases:
hypersensitive response, hypersensitive site, hypersensitive tooth, DNase I hypersensitive site, opposite of hypersensitive, more...

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Similar:
hypersensitized, sensitized, allergic, supersensitive, susceptible, supersensitized, extrasensitive, oversensitive, oversensitized, ultrasensitive, more...

Opposite:
insensitive

Types:
allergic, intolerant, more...

Phrases:
hypersensitive response, hypersensitive site, hypersensitive tooth, DNase I hypersensitive site, opposite of hypersensitive, more...

Colors:
    pale pink,     lavender,     light blue,     soft yellow,     mint green, more...



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