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hyperactive

[ hahy-per-ak-tiv ]

adjective

  1. unusually or abnormally active:

    a company's hyperactive growth; the child's hyperactive imagination.

  2. (of children) displaying exaggerated physical activity sometimes associated with neurologic or psychologic causes.


hyperactive

/ ˌɪəˈæɪ /

adjective

  1. abnormally active
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Derived Forms

  • ˌˈپDz, noun
  • ˌˈپٲ, noun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ···پDz [hahy-per-, ak, -sh, uh, n], noun
  • p·t· adverb
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of hyperactive1

First recorded in 1865–70; hyper- + active
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But the star is the movie’s hyperactive, even overwhelmingly contradictory nostalgia.

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Lines were spoken as if newly coined from the hyperactive minds of Macbeth and his wife.

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Now Trump has brought that mindset to the Oval Office which, I suppose, isn’t surprising given the subleasing of his presidency to the hyperactive and assertively transgressive Elon Musk.

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A new study calculates that exposure to car exhaust from leaded gas during childhood altered the balance of mental health in the U.S. population, making generations of Americans more depressed, anxious and inattentive or hyperactive.

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Don’t take personally the Sagittarius penchant to run away at a moment’s notice to a faraway land promising the stimulation they not just crave but require to fuel their hyperactive brains.

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