HYPERSENSITIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypersensitive mean? 

• HYPERSENSITIVE (adjective)
  The adjective HYPERSENSITIVE has 1 sense:

1. having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)

  Familiarity information: HYPERSENSITIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HYPERSENSITIVE (adjective)

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Meaning:

Having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)

Synonyms:

allergic; hypersensitised; hypersensitive; hypersensitized; sensitised; sensitized; supersensitised; supersensitive; supersensitized

Context example:

hypersensitive to pollen

Similar:

susceptible ((often followed by 'of' or 'to') yielding readily to or capable of)

Derivation:

hypersensitivity (extreme sensitivity)

hypersensitivity (pathological sensitivity)

 Context examples 

Systemic and pulmonary reactions resulting from inhalation of dust from moldy hay, threshing dust, or moldy straw, by persons who have become hypersensitive to antigens in the dust.

(Farmer's Lung, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

An acute hypersensitive immune response that occurs from exposure to an allergen.

(Anaphylaxis, NCI Thesaurus)

A hypersensitive immune reaction to a substance that normally is harmless or would not cause an immune response in most people.

(Allergic response, NCI Dictionary)