Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having a very excitable or nervous temperament; high-strung.
- adjective Emotionally stimulated or overexcited.
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- adjective colloquial Short for
hyperactive
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Associated Press The group has raised more than $1 million to seed its effort against what it calls hyper-partisanship.
Aiming for the Political Middle Monica Langley 2010
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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.
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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.
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Governor Spitzer accusing his opponents and critics of what he called hyper - partisanship, fear mongering and being anti-immigrant.
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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.
Vp Gore Briefing On Summit Of Americas ITY National Archives 1994
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Razer also threw in what it calls "hyper response technology" into its ABXY face buttons.
Wired Top Stories Bryan Gardiner 2011
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Walters said Hudgins is taking an antidepressant, two medications to help him sleep and a medication to counteract what he called hyper-impulsivity.
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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,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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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 2009
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I really wish that women in hyper-masculinised industries would call a spade a spade.
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Let’s call it hyper goo: a style of glitchy, gloppy maximalism that has landed on consumer culture like a wet sneeze. Text on shampoo bottles and pickle jars increasingly resembles the inner workings of a lava lamp.
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