adjective
definition
Highly or abnormally sensitive to some substances or agents, especially to some allergen.
definition
Excessively sensitive; easily offended.
Examples of hypersensitive in a Sentence
Remember that autistic children may be hypersensitive to certain sensory stimuli.
Leaves can be skin irritant and or make skin hypersensitive to sunlight.
Some hypersensitive people have unique chemical reactions in the brain that cause them to respond much more strongly to stress.
In hypersensitive individuals even a tiny amount of allergen can cause a severe allergic reaction.
Some infants are hypersensitive to stimuli, and their crying will get worse if they receive any more than a minimum of comforting, such as parental holding or cuddling.
People with AD may be hypersensitive to irritants because they have abnormally low levels of interferon-gamma in their systems.
However, as energetic as they are, there is still a tendency for them to be a bit hypersensitive, and a tad gossipy.
Hypersensitive infants cry in response to new experiences that do not normally upset other babies; ordinary comforting measures, such as holding, rocking, feeding, or swaddling do not work and may even make the crying worse.
Thus, the researchers suggest that young untransformed petunias are hypersensitive to sudden increase in proline.
This nervous excitability was inherited, though' not to the same excess, by Octave, whose mother died in his infancy and left him to the care of the hypersensitive invalid.
Multiple stings can have much more severe consequences, such as anaphylaxis, a life-threatening allergic reaction that occurs in children who are hypersensitive to the venom.
Her skin remained so hypersensitive that she could sense people walking around her bed.
Platelets from men and women with diabetes are often hypersensitive in vitro to platelet aggregating agents.