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Antonyms for hypersensitive


Grammar : Adj
Spell : hahy-per-sen-si-tiv
Phonetic Transcription : ˌhaɪ pərˈsɛn sɪ tɪv



Definition 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

Synonyms for hypersensitive

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