hyperdefensive

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ defensive.

Adjective

hyperdefensive (comparative more hyperdefensive, superlative most hyperdefensive)

1. Extremely defensive.
   • 2001, Zachary Abuza, Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam, page 81:

     But to a hyperdefensive party, the policies that Bach advocated were controversial and potentially dangerous and therefore were rejected outright.

   • 2012, Patricia Waugh, Feminine Fictions RLE, page 107:

     Alternatively, for the male characters there is the systematic, dogmatic 'masculine' detachment and denial of dependency of Mr Ramsay, or the intransigent, hyperdefensive shrillness of the unfortunate Charles Tansley […]