hypersensitive
adjEtymology From hyper- + sensitive. Doublet of supersensitive.
1
Highly or abnormally sensitive to some substances or agents, especially to some allergen.
2
Excessively sensitive; easily offended.
- Derived terms
- electrohypersensitive, hypersensitive avoidant, hypersensitively, hypersensitiveness, nonhypersensitive, pseudohypersensitive
- Related terms
- hypersensitivity, hypersensitize, hypersensitized