oversensitive

Speech parts

1. oversensitive - Adjective

2. oversensitive - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

unduly sensitive or thin-skinned

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

moody defensive feeling sensitive emotional nervous tense sympathetic susceptible volatile tender delicate sensible responsive fiery
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Antonyms

certain strong hard tough hardened insensitive
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Examples

I think to be oversensitive about cliches is like being oversensitive about table manners. Evelyn Waugh

I am sometimes accused of being oversensitive about unemployment. I do not believe that that is possible, certainly not for anyone who lived through the 1930s and saw the political consequences of high unemployment throughout Western Europe and what happened in 1939. Edward Heath

I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that. Brion James

I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters. Stieg Larsson

Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have the same warm and fuzzy feel. But maybe I'm oversensitive. James Patterson

My wife accuses me - and she's probably right - that I'm sometimes oversensitive. Joe Torre

Close letter words and terms

oversense oversensible oversensing oversensitively oversensitiveness oversensitivity