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hypersensitive
adjective as in allergic
Strongest match
adjective as in sensitive
Strongest matches
adjective as in susceptive
Weak matches
- acute
- cognizant
- conscious
- delicate
- easily affected
- emotionable
- emotional
- feeling
- fine
- high-strung
- hung up
- impressible
- impressionable
- irritable
- keen
- knowing
- nervous
- oversensitive
- perceiving
- perceptive
- precarious
- precise
- psychic
- reactive
- receptive
- responsive
- seeing
- sensatory
- sensible
- sensile
- sensorial
- sensory
- sentient
- supersensitive
- susceptible
- tense
- ticklish
- touchy
- touchy feely
- tricky
- tuned-in
- turned on to
- umbrageous
- understanding
- unstable
- wired
adjective as in temperamental
Strongest matches
adjective as in tender
adjective as in thin-skinned
adjective as in touchy
Example Sentences
A post-mortem examination found Hannah died after suffering a hypersensitive anaphylactic reaction triggered by an ingredient in her hot chocolate causing an allergic response.
The death of a 13-year-old girl who died of a hypersensitive anaphylactic reaction after drinking a Costa Coffee hot chocolate should be a "wake up call" to all food companies, campaigners say.
A post-mortem examination found Hannah died after suffering from a hypersensitive anaphylactic reaction triggered by an ingredient in her hot chocolate that caused an allergic response.
“We know the Sound Transit board is hypersensitive to bad public relations, so they do everything they can to put a positive face on things, and that’s what happened here,” he said.
Research has shown that lonely people are hypersensitive to negative social words, such as “disliked” or “rejected,” and to faces expressing negative emotions.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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