Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. highly or abnormally sensitive to a stimulus, especially to some allergen.
WordNet
adj. having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor); "allergic children"; "hypersensitive to pollen" [syn: allergic, hypersensitized, hypersensitised, sensitized, sensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized, supersensitised]
Wikipedia
Hypersensitive is the second album by the five-piece music group Ghost Machine. The album was released on November 21, 2006 via Corporate Punishment Records.
The original track listing of the album, displayed on such sites as Amazon.com and Allmusic, was identical to that of their self-titled debut album Ghost Machine. However, it actually features ten new tracks and the older tracks have been slightly reworked.
Usage examples of "hypersensitive".
She had the freak coloring that marked out the hypersensitive empath, and Reidel shrank before the intense wisdom and compassion in those wide eyes.
And the freak coloring of a hypersensitive empath would have protected her in the stewing hells of a Capella slum!
His earthquake instinct from living in Los Angeles made him hypersensitive to even the faintest palpitations of the ground.
I flew backward and crashed to the floor on my hypersensitive contused ass.
There were no wrong sounds coming from it, and its shape was right, so they had moved far away before beginning to spiral in again, searching the waters, sending out the creaking groans which would be reflected to their hypersensitive ears from any solid object.
The poem was suppressed by GHQ, obviously because the censors remained hypersensitive to any overt expression whatever of Japanese regret at losing the war.
No thermometer verified this, but a few weeks later the symptoms of nausea and hypersensitive noses did.
As he grabbed a pencil beside the kitchen phone, his hypersensitive ears picked up the sound of automobiles approaching on the street.
And then his early experience with the Fair Folk may have made him hypersensitive to such influences, almost like getting an allergy.
There are a large number of substances to which the asthmatic subject may be hypersensitive, contact with which is responsible for an attack.
There was no amusement or condescension in his voice that Raimey could detect, not even in his hypersensitive state.
The SS agents assigned to Kennedy are hypersensitive about anything that might jack up the risk factor, and they move on the theory that safety increases with speed.
The serologist was watching a CRT screen over 130 centimeters across diagonally, with perfect resolution, the computer-generated picture of what was happening in the gel at that time as seen by the hypersensitive electron microscope.
The pain in withdrawal was the extreme feeling of anxiety that Ryan remembered wella raw, hypersensitive feeling, like a sunburned nervous systemwanting to either take a drink or go out the window.
He had answered: 'Ask our foreign‑returned doctor, ask that nakkoo, that German Aziz,' Was it, then, an attempt to offend the Doctor's hypersensitive nostrils (in which the itch of danger had subsided somewhat under the anaesthetizing ministrations of love)?