Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Slang Having a very excitable or nervous temperament; high-strung.
- adj. Slang Emotionally stimulated or overexcited.
Wiktionary
- adj. colloquial Short for hyperactive
Etymologies
- Short for hyperactive. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Associated Press The group has raised more than $1 million to seed its effort against what it calls hyper-partisanship.”
“That really knows not only what we call hyper - local, which is what is happening in your community, but what is happening in -- you know, in your Taiwan, in your India, in your Vietnam.”
“BASH: Senator McCain said that he wants to end what he calls hyper partisanship and he gave some details on how he would intend to do that.”
“Governor Spitzer accusing his opponents and critics of what he called hyper - partisanship, fear mongering and being anti-immigrant.”
“It's a compelling analogy, because when you encounter what he referred to as the hyper variety, then the productive resources of a society are diverted to dealing with that problem.”
“Razer also threw in what it calls "hyper response technology" into its ABXY face buttons.”
“Walters said Hudgins is taking an antidepressant, two medications to help him sleep and a medication to counteract what he called hyper-impulsivity.”
“Aquila and Theodotion follow the reading of Masorah and, in Ps. viii, translate the title hyper tes getthitidos; yet this same reading is said by Bellarmine ( "Explanatio in Psalmos", Paris,”
“I really wish that women in hyper-masculinised industries would call a spade a spade.”
Don’t complain: Surviving in a hyper-masculinised industry « Womanvsfeminist’s Blog
“Stargate Universe s01e16 Sabotage Watch – In the next episode of Stargate Universe, An expert in hyper drives, who has a past with Dr. Rush, arrives on the Destiny via the communication stones.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hyper’.
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prefix (regular, compound, hyphenate)
cool prefixes to add to anything (noun, verb, adjective) to create a word, compound word or 2 word phrase.
examples: hyper = hypercharge ; phantom = phantom charge.
go...uber, super, hyper, phantom, mega, ultra, quantum, maxi, poli, exo, extra, multi and 25 more...
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Kitten Is:
Mere days ago, I found a five-week-old kitten abandoned in the median of the Avenue we live on. She was in terrible shape, but is doing great now thanks to love and dedication.
The fo...small, hyper, bitey, silly, springy, soft, sage-eyed, tortoise shell, archy, darty, sneaky, bestriped and 27 more...
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Prefixes
a-, ab, abs, ambi, ante, anti, aqu, aqua, arch, astro, auto, bene and 71 more...
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Restless
How can you stop when your feet say go?
hyperideation, unquiet, unpeaceful, cabin fever, space-hunger, restlessness, inquietude, wanrufe, restiveness, restive, champ at the bit, fidgetiness and 28 more...
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SoSheShall's list
slurp, coeur, slurple, glop, perp, fluarxx, ropechno, herrherr, burrduhherrherr, sloppy, cheezie balls, eccentric and 634 more...
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Fun with Apocopes
Words created by removing the end of a longer or original word. See also Fun with Aphesis.
abs, ad, bio, veg, veggie, tux, auto, bike, carbs, pecs, bro, sis and 186 more...
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Time for a new list!
abrupt, erupt, rupture, sync, appropinquity, heterochromia, homochromatic, monochromatic, willy nilly, nitty gritty, kowtow, wonton and 455 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1689 more...
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the hotlist
short, sweet, epic, catchy, sassy, sexy & sizzling.
( personal list, randomness )
more:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/...zing, epic, win, fail, hot, warp, times, clip, onyx, wonky, pwn, leet and 1493 more...
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Tunie: Great Big Words
A song by Tom Chapin. Listen to it here.
When I was a little kid, a diminutive juvenile,
I liked my folks to read to me, I was an eager bibliophile.
Now I love words...finale, diminuendo, reiterate, association, speech, polysyllabic, linguistic, hyper, terms, prodigious, sesquipedalian, distingue and 13 more...
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of me
words I would use to describe myself
ambidextrous, bibliophile, creative, dogmatic, energetic, fixated, generous, hyper, intelligent, jabbering, kvetching, lyrical and 48 more...
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emk's Words
highbrow, despicable, marshmallow, kitten, ace, fitting, charm, plush, nauseating, cataclysmic, velveteen, rugged and 42 more...
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danke's Words
recalcitrant, indigenous, atavistic, insurgent, hardy, laidback, mystic, brahmin, boston, melanin, pigmentation, epidermal and 75 more...
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Favorite words: 2012 edition
carousel, merry-go-round, Manhattan, alive, skyscraper, city, cityscape, mauve, defenestrate, twisted, insane, gone and 13 more...
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these words blow
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