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Meanings of hypersensitive in English

Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)

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      Excessively sensitive.

            Usage of hypersensitive in English
            1
            Purpose: Food allergy is a hypersensitive immune response to specific food proteins.
            Pubmed
            2
            I also asked myself if I had been too proud, too hypersensitive.
            Bring the Jubilee
            3
            We further show that 18 candidate effectors can suppress plant hypersensitive responses.
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            4
            On patrol with Stopkham The group is hypersensitive about protecting its reputation.
            The Guardian
            5
            He would come off as some combination of uncouth and comically hypersensitive.
            Seveneves
            6
            The storm made her even more alert, hypersensitive to sound and movement.
            Rose in a storm
            7
            Phoebe was hypersensitive about what she termed her membership in Crazies Unlimited.
            Dark dreamer: a dark vista romance
            8
            She gasped at the sensation of his fingers on her hypersensitive flesh.
            Rock my world
            9
            She saw it, and in her hypersensitive condition recognized it instantly.
            Gold of the Gods
            10
            Sport mode errs on the side of aggressive twitchiness and hypersensitive throttle response.
            BBC
            11
            Only the hypersensitive Vera was disturbed by the monotonous beating of restless wings.
            The Best Short Stories of 1921, and the Yearbook of the American...
            12
            She moaned softly at the touch, her fingers' destination already hypersensitive and ready.
            Night tides
            13
            Investing emotionally in injustices and being hypersensitive to tragedies is taxing.
            Ebony
            14
            Her skin had become hypersensitive, feeling the rasp of her T-shirt.
            Sushi for one?
            15
            I'm prickling everywhere-alongmy neck and down my arms, feeling hypersensitive and overheated.
            Sweet Filthy Boy
            16
            A woman who has gone through Mrs. Clarke's ordeal is generally hypersensitive afterwards.
            In the Wilderness
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