hyperdefensive

Extremely defensive.

Adjective

  1. Extremely defensive.
    • But to a hyperdefensive party, the policies that Bach advocated were controversial and potentially dangerous and therefore were rejected outright. - 2001, Zachary Abuza, Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam, page...
    • 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[…]...

Origin

From hyper- + defensive.

Forms

more hyperdefensive most hyperdefensive