"oversensitive" meaning in English

See oversensitive in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more oversensitive [comparative], most oversensitive [superlative], over-sensitive [alternative]
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  1. Having excessive sensitivity; reacting to stimuli too readily; thin-skinned. Derived forms: oversensitively, oversensitiveness Translations (having excessive sensitivity): hipersensíbel (Galician), hipersensible (Galician), überempfindlich (German), túlérzékeny (Hungarian), nadwrażliwy (Polish), przeczulony (Polish), przewrażliwiony (Polish), гиперсензити́вный (gipersenzitívnyj) (Russian), överkänslig (Swedish)

Alternative forms

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