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oversensitive

adjective as in tender

adjective as in thin-skinned

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Example Sentences

Neither she nor her brothers understood their oversensitive relative.

The rigorous altitude of intellect in which she was reared served as a corrective to the oversensitive quality of her imagination.

The whole self is oversensitive, and the very inflection of a voice has enormous significance.

Some, which I found had offended the oversensitive and irritable tempers of certain persons, I struck out.

In the debate as to whether there should be veal loaf or poached egg on hash, she had no chance to be heretical and oversensitive.

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On this page you'll find 238 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to oversensitive, such as: annoyed, contentious, exasperated, fractious, petulant, and prickly.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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