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Meanings of oversensitive in English

Excessively sensitive.

        Oversensitive.

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                Examples for "hypersensitive"
                Examples for "hypersensitive"
                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.
                Pubmed
                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
                Usage of oversensitive in English
                1
                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
                12
                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
                14
                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
                16
                As I have elsewhere stated, this is apt to leave the nerves oversensitive for a season.
                Doctor and Patient
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                Oversensitive through the time