English > hypersensitive: 1 sense > adjective 1Meaning | Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor). |
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Example | "hypersensitive to pollen" |
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Synonyms | allergic, hypersensitized, hypersensitised, sensitized, sensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized, supersensitised |
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Broader | susceptible | (often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of |
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Spanish | alérgico, hipersensible, sensible |
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Catalan | al·lèrgic, hipersensible, sensible |
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Nouns | hypersensitivity | extreme / extreme sensitivity |
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hypersensitivity | pathological sensitivity |