hypersensitised

Questions about hypersensitised

What does hypersensitised mean?

hypersensitised means "having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor)".

How many syllables are in hypersensitised?

hypersensitised has 5 syllables and divides as hyper-sen-si-ti-sed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for hypersensitised?

Close synonyms include allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitized, sensitised. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hypersensitised a common word?

hypersensitised is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.