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Meanings of oversensitive in English

Excessively sensitive.

Oversensitive.

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Usage of oversensitive in English
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I know the value of correct dressing, and I am not oversensitive.
A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Dau...
2
They were by no means oversensitive, but this scene was too terrible.
The Living Link: A Novel
3
I'm probably just being oversensitive because... She gestured at her back.
Wings
4
I want to go, of course, but-Jarvis , Ihopeyou are not oversensitive.
The Desired Woman
5
And Susie said that I was crazy, it was just me being oversensitive.
News.com.au
6
This means the bots risk leaving gaps or proving oversensitive.
The Guardian
7
Cops are normally oversensitive to that kind of direct challenge.
Double Dexter
8
Havelock had been able to put Miller's reaction down to one man's being oversensitive.
Leviathan Wakes
9
The surface of the reddened spots is often oversensitive.
Mother's Remedies / Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies ...
10
The whole self is oversensitive, and the very inflection of a voice has enormous significance.
Applied Psychology for Nurses
11
For nearly twenty years this oversensitive girl had known few hours of understanding and sympathy.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness
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I wonder if you're not oversensitive about your misfortune.
Of Human Bondage
13
You're being oversensitive, he told himself, just because she doesn't smile doesn't mean she's a threat.
The Reality Dysfunction
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After a while, it's LaBoeuf who takes his leave after having proving oversensitive to Rooster's bluster.
Reuters
15
To his oversensitive nature these primal emotions had a crudeness that was vulgar in its unrestraint.
The Deliverance: A Romance of the Virginia Tobacco Fields
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As I have elsewhere stated, this is apt to leave the nerves oversensitive for a season.
Doctor and Patient
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