Adjective: hyperactive
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more hyperactive |
| Superlative | most hyperactive |
Sample Sentences
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Salarians are noted for their high-speed metabolism, which allows them to function on just one hour of sleep a day. Their minds and bodies work faster than most sapient races, making them seem restless or hyperactive. The drawback of this active metabolism is a short lifespan of around 40 human years. [2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Salarians: Biology Codex entry:]
Adjectives inflected like hyperactive
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *úp
3. Proto-Indo-European *-er
4. Proto-Indo-European *upér
5. Proto-Hellenic *hupér
6. Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér)
7. Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der.
8. English hyper-
9. Old French actifbor.
10. Middle English actyf
11. English active
12. English hyperactive
13. From hyper- + active.
Verbs referencing "hyperactive"
Finnish Adjectives
hyperaktiivinen, Dutch Adjectives
hyperactief.