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Excessively active
Answer for the clue "Excessively active ", 11 letters:
hyperactive
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Word definitions for hyperactive in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1852, from hyper- + active .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
hyperactive \hyperactive\ a. Exhibiting hyperactivity.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 having an increased state of activity 2 having attention deficit disorder (no longer used by the scientific community)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. more active than normal; "a hyperactive child" [syn: overactive ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN child ▪ Do you have a hyperactive child ? ▪ Nineteen out of every twenty hyperactive children are boys. ▪ Surely a most inappropriate colour scheme for the bedroom of a hyperactive child ? EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hyperactive describes someone or something exhibiting hyperactivity. Hyperactive may also refer to: " Hyperactive! ", a song by Thomas Dolby from The Flat Earth "Hyperactive", a song by Robert Palmer from Riptide "Hyperactive", a song by Raven from The ...
Usage examples of hyperactive.
Warburton coaxed it on to a rag of synthetic skin and let it feed before transferring it to yet another hyperactive surface, into which it seemed to dissolve entirely, leaving nothing on the surface but a faint and rather cartoonish outline of a bat in flight.
Billowing dust and ash raced over the grounds and rolled down the mountainside like a hyperactive pyroclastic cloud.
The points of light representing the datafiles made a hyperactive galaxy in the electron sky.
Are narcissists mostly hyperactive or hypoactive sexually and to what extent are they likely to be infidel in marriage?
Other dittos, meant for hedonism, sacrifice some élan vital for hyperactive pleasure cells and high-fi memory inloading.
Dairine suddenly realized that the glowing green-white ceiling was in fact the sky-the lower layer of a thick cloudy atmosphere, actually fluorescing under the light of a hidden, hyperactive sun-and her stomach did an unhappy flip as her sense of scale violently reoriented itself.
Conventioneers could eat peanuts and drink and cheer like a Monday Night Football crowd as they watched big hyperactive hellraisers get wrestled down and turned meek as mice with a shot.
Jon-Tom was grateful for the time he'd spent on the basketball court, and for the unusual stride that enabled him to keep up with the hyperactive Mudge and their racing and still identityless savior.
Her hyperactive disposition had caused her to fail more than one class at Madame Ko's Academy.
The next two factors, the magnetopause and the magnetotail, are created by the interaction of the Earth's magnetic field with the solar wind, a continual stream of particles outward bound from our hyperactive sun.
They had been a beautiful, perfectly contrasted ebony-and-ivory couple, she long, languid, pale, he equally long, but a pitch-black African-American, and a hyperactive one at that, a hunter, fisherman, weekend driver of very fast cars, marathon runner, gym rat, tennis player, and, lately, thanks to the rise of Tiger Woods, an obsessive golfer too.
As public-relations gigs went, La Forge had experienced a lot worse, the groups he had escorted ranging from arrogant Federation ambassadors who thought they knew everything there was to know about warp drives to throngs of hyperactive children on field trips from the ship’s classes and day-care facilities.
I woke every morning from five hours of enriched REM sleep, as wide-eyed and energetic as a hyperactive child, my head spinning with a thousand disintegrating dreams (most of them elaborate remixes of the previous day's editing).
Rosewood soothes hyperactive or restless children, and in adults brings acceptance of life as it is and the frailties of others.
As public-relations gigs went, La Forge had experienced a lot worse, the groups he had escorted ranging from arrogant Federation ambassadors who thought they knew everything there was to know about warp drives to throngs of hyperactive children on field trips from the ship’.