Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Extremely or excessively sensitive.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having excessive sensitivity; reacting to stimuli too readily; thin-skinned.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. unduly sensitive or thin-skinned
Examples
“The label oversensitive will almost certainly be one of the first that comes to your mind about him, I'd wager.”
“Hmmm ... on sensitivity, i think i have always been sensitive, i used to wipe my body if someone mistakenly touched it, i think i've changed though .... being oversensitive is not good.”
“When he slipped through an ice bridge near the White Horse and froze his foot, tender yet and oversensitive from the previous freezing, the Indians looked for him to lie up.”
“As to why I am "oversensitive" -- go read the internet.”
“Jeffery, poor Point Man, who is calling you "oversensitive"?”
“Yaaaaa, everyone careful with Jeffery the Point Man ... he thinks he's being "oversensitive" ... or wants us to think that we are accusing him of being "oversensitive" or ... what the hell is it Jeffery the Point Man forking wants here?”
“Over course, one would be "oversensitive" to suggest that there's anything inappropriate about calling Clinton "the first black president".”
“What kind of oversensitive chicken little is it who would think white folks would have a problem with a black guy being President?”
“And it is silencing to be told that what has happened to you really did not and that it is all a result of your being "oversensitive" or "having a chip on your shoulder.”
“When wielded badly, layers of intended and unintended analogy can lead to really stunning outrages (which will instantly be written off as "oversensitive" by people who are undersensitive, of course - part of the reason metaphors are powerful and dangerous is because they're so often obscured).”
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