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UK
/haɪpˈɜːsənsɪtˌɪv/
]
[ US /ˌhaɪpɝˈsɛnsɪtɪv/ ]
[ US /ˌhaɪpɝˈsɛnsɪtɪv/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)
hypersensitive to pollen
allergic children
How To Use hypersensitive In A Sentence
- How anyone could have read some sinister intent into those views is indeed puzzling, and illustrates well how those damned Jewshow certain hypersensitive and overly privileged people who feel superior to the rest of the world are willing to cut their own throats for short term advantage by using unjustified charges of anti-semitism to point out how they take advantage of their position in any nation or institution who trusts them so as to benefit their own in group at the expense of that nation or institution. The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
- If a health-care worker becomes latex hypersensitive, he or she may be qualified to receive workmen's compensation, depending upon the state in which he or she resides.
- Adolescents who are depressed may be hypersensitive and overreact to minor problems or embarrassments.
- Unlike the hypersensitive necrotic reaction, this stem-tip necrosis can be a serious threat to soybean production.
- Student teachers were hypersensitive to any criticism of their performance.
- Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. A Woman's Place
- Some say this is just his way, pointing out that he has always been unpredictable, hypersensitive about criticism.
- He's hypersensitive to any kind of criticism.
- But right from the start, Cooper's hypersensitive temperament and extreme high-handedness took their toll.
- The skin is extremely painful and hypersensitive, even to air movement.