Usually means: Excessively active, energetic, or excited.
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We found 46 dictionaries that define the word hyper:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyper, hyper-: Merriam-Webster
  2. hyper, hyper-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hyper, hyper-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hyper, hyper-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Hyper, hyper, hyper-: Wordnik
  6. hyper, hyper-: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. hyper: Wiktionary
  8. hyper, hyper-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. hyper, hyper-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. hyper: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. hyper, hyper-: Dictionary.com
  12. hyper-: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. hyper, hyper-: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Hyper (TV channel), Hyper (disambiguation), Hyper (film), Hyper (magazine), Hyper: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hyper-: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hyper-: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. Hyper-: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. hyper: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. hyper, hyper-: MyWord.info
  20. hyper-: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hyper, hyper, hyper-: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. hyper: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyper-: A Cross Reference of Latin and Greek Elements

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hyper: Encyclopedia

Medicine (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hyper-: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  2. ABTA Brain Tumor Patients (No longer online)
  3. Hyper-: MedFriendly Glossary
  4. hyper-: Sound Alike Words
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. GASTROLAB Digestive Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. AIDS Medical Glossary and Drug Chart (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of HIV/AIDS Related Terms (No longer online)
  9. hyper, hyper-: Medical dictionary
  10. PERFUSION TECHNOLOGY, OPEN HEART SURGERY AND CARDIOLOGY (No longer online)
  11. Hyper-: Drug Medical Dictionary
  12. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. HYPER-, HYPER: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. hyper, hyper, hyper: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. hyper: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. hyper: The Folk File
  4. hyper: ESL Slang page

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Washington State Definitions and Abbreviations of Vetrinary Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (Philippines, informal) Hyperactive.
adjective:  (slang) Energetic; overly diligent.
verb:  (transitive, photography) To subject (a film or plate) to photographic hypersensitization, chiefly as a technique in astrophotography.
verb:  (transitive) To expose (an animal) to a disease-causing organism, to promote hyperimmunity.
noun:  (countable, informal) A character or an individual with large body parts, especially the erogenous zones, with extremely exaggerated sizes, as the object of paraphilic arousal.
noun:  (uncountable, informal) A paraphilia or fetish pornography involving large, exaggerated body parts.
adjective:  (informal) Of or related to hyper characters.
noun:  (countable, bodybuilding, informal) Clipping of hyperextension. [The extension of a joint beyond its normal range; the condition of being hyperextended.]
noun:  (uncountable, informal) Clipping of hypersexuality. [Excessive desire for sexual activity, especially when considered high enough to be clinically significant.]
noun:  (uncountable, informal) Clipping of hyperthyroidism. [(medicine) The excessive production of hormones by the thyroid.]
noun:  (uncountable, science fiction, informal) Clipping of hyperspace. [(mathematics) An n-dimensional Euclidian space with n > 3.]
noun:  (wrestling) Alternative form of hiper [(wrestling) A wrestler who uses the hipe technique.]

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