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hypersensitive

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That creates an imbalance and everyone has to be careful not to upset the hypersensitive SJWs as a result.

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Quick take

Excessively sensitive; easily offended.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hypersensitive gathered in one view.

adjective

Excessively sensitive; easily offended.

adjective

Highly or abnormally sensitive to some substances or agents, especially to some allergen.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hypersensitive.

Example sentences

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That creates an imbalance and everyone has to be careful not to upset the hypersensitive SJWs as a result.

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These kind of comments pop up all the time, Europeans are hypersensitive and complain at the drop of a hat.

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Only hypersensitive people who choose to be offended by everything find it offensive, and those people should be fought against, not placated.

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They're hypersensitive and find everything and anything offensive for the sake of being offended because their outrage nets them a form of attention.

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Before you do anything, please look into this kid's (?) mental state and try to gauge how hypersensitive he may be to being critiqued.

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Worth noting that it's set to be hypersensitive right now for testing.

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The hypersensitive snark detector has been taken out back and flogged.

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Viewing it from this perspective outlines how easily one could be hypersensitive to comments, looks, smiles because you’re already going into it with that perspective.

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The two disorders often go together, but she's trying to tease apart why some people are hypersensitive to sensory stimuli and yet DON'T have autism.

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When you've a movement that is based on very flawed statistics and that places emphasis on hypersensitive feelings over reality, dissent containing reality or fact is a threat.

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At the same time Europeans are so hypersensitive about 'racism' that the topic can't even be discussed in polite company (which leaves it to actual racists to even talk about the issues).

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And yes, I've been clean for three years, but whenever I'd go through withdrawals every single nerve ending would be on fire and I'd be hypersensitive to pain.

Quote examples

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Apologies for the derail; the "artiste" is hypersensitive about his children.

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This is just picking a nit that my hypersensitive self just can't resist: "Fizz buzz style coding problems are less predictive of ability to do well in a programming interview" I'm sure this is 100% true, but I thought the point of fizzbuzz-type problems were to weed out people who couldn't program at all?

Proper noun examples

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Or maybe we're just fated to become the Hypersensitive, Hyperventilating States of America at this point.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use hypersensitive in a sentence?

That creates an imbalance and everyone has to be careful not to upset the hypersensitive SJWs as a result.

What does hypersensitive mean?

Excessively sensitive; easily offended.

What part of speech is hypersensitive?

hypersensitive is commonly used as adjective.