English > hypersensitive: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | 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 |