The Collaborative International Dictionary
hypertensive \hypertensive\ n.
having abnormally high blood pressure.
Causing high blood pressure.
hypertensive \hypertensive\ n. A person who suffers from persistently high blood pressure.
Wiktionary
a. of, pertaining to, or causing hypertension n. 1 a person with hypertension 2 a drug that increases blood pressure
WordNet
adj. having abnormally high blood pressure [ant: hypotensive, normotensive]
Usage examples of "hypertensive".
A fifth of all Americans are hypertensive, but none of the Yanomami are.
After Smokey Updike, and Osmond, and Gardener, and Elroy, and something that looked like a cross between an alligator and a Sherman tank, all it really took to bring him down was overweight, hypertensive Morgan Sloat crouched behind a rock, watching and waiting for an overconfident boy named Jack Sawyer to come boogy-ing right down on top of him.
And to the discovery that Phimie's blood pressure was so high-210 over 126-that she was in a hypertensive crisis, at risk of a stroke, renal failure, and other life-threatening complications.