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hypersensitive

hypersensitive adjective: highly or abnormally sensitive to some substances or agents, especially to some allergen.

Adjective

hypersensitive (comparative more hypersensitive, superlative most hypersensitive)

  1. Highly or abnormally sensitive to some substances or agents, especially to some allergen.
  2. Excessively sensitive; easily offended.

hypersensitive meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Bengali

hypersensitive in Hindi

hypersensitive
अतिसंवेदनशील atisamvedanśīl

hypersensitive in Tamil

அதிவுணர்வுள்ள

hypersensitive in Bengali

অত্যধিক সংবেদনশীল, সহজে অপমানিত হয় এমন

Forms of hypersensitive

comparativemore hypersensitive
superlativemost hypersensitive

Origin of hypersensitive

From hyper- + sensitive. Doublet of supersensitive.

Words formed from hypersensitive

Questions about hypersensitive

What does hypersensitive mean?
Hypersensitive means highly or abnormally sensitive to some substances or agents, especially to some allergen.
What is hypersensitive in Hindi?
Hypersensitive in Hindi is अतिसंवेदनशील (atisamvedanśīl). See Hypersensitive meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is hypersensitive?
Hypersensitive is an adjective.

Words near hypersensitive in the dictionary

  1. hypersensitisations
  2. hypersensitise
  3. hypersensitised
  4. hypersensitises
  5. hypersensitising
  6. hypersensitive
  7. hypersensitive avoidant
  8. hypersensitively
  9. hypersensitiveness
  10. hypersensitivities
  11. hypersensitivity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypersensitive (page history and authors); अतिसंवेदनशील (Hindi) (page history and authors); hypersensitive (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hypersensitive (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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