HYPER
What does "HYPER" mean?
Informal term for being unusually energetic, excitable, or wound up.
Meanings
- Overly active, excited, or restless. The kids were hyper after all that birthday cake. informal
- A combining form meaning 'over', 'above', or 'excessive', as in hyperactive or hyperlink. The prefix 'hyper' turns 'sensitive' into 'hypersensitive'. technical
Did you know?
- The Greek 'hyper-' and the Latin 'super-' are the same word in different costumes: both descend from one ancient root meaning 'over', which is why hyperactive and superior share a buried ancestor.
Word origin
From Greek 'hyper' (over, above, beyond); long used only as a prefix, it broke loose in the 1900s to stand alone as an adjective meaning over-energized.
Remember it
HYPER and 'higher' sound almost alike - a hyper person is wound up higher than everyone else in the room.
A little poem
Cake gone, the room hums -
six kids vibrating like wires
no plug can switch off.
haiku
Wordplay
- I tried to calm my hyper friend by linking him to a meditation page. He just clicked through every hyperlink instead.
What it teaches
Energy with no aim is just noise; the same charge, pointed somewhere, becomes drive.
Quick facts
What does HYPER mean?
Informal term for being unusually energetic, excitable, or wound up.
Is HYPER a valid word?
Yes — HYPER is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is HYPER?
HYPER has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does HYPER come from?
From Greek 'hyper' (over, above, beyond); long used only as a prefix, it broke loose in the 1900s to stand alone as an adjective meaning over-energized.
What can HYPER teach us?
Energy with no aim is just noise; the same charge, pointed somewhere, becomes drive.
How players do
Be the first to solve it.