单词 | oversensitive |
释义 | oversensitiveadj. Excessively or unduly sensitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > [adjective] > excessively sensitive over-tender?a1425 oversensible1601 weak1768 oversensitive1817 supersensitive1817 hypersensitive1871 1817 N. Amer. Rev. July 281 You let your imagination beguile you, this is but some delusion of an over-sensitive mind. 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days (ed. 3) Pref. p. vi Excitement, to nerves that are over-sensitive. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress ix. 110 The same feeling which a composer with an oversensitive ear would suffer on hearing his pet opus assassinated by a schoolgirl. 1953 K. Reisz Technique Film Editing iii. xv. 266 He becomes over-sensitive to his surroundings and suspicious of casual passers-by. 1995 Vogue Dec. 232/2 Saturn and the Sun at odds with one another make you oversensitive in mid-December. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1817 |
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