About The Word Hypercritical
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Hypercritical
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What's The Definition Of Hypercritical?
[adj] inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Hypercritical: critical | overcritical Related Terms | Find terms related to Hypercritical: captious | carping | caviling | censorious | critic | critical | cynical | faultfinding | hairsplitting | hypersensitive | morbidly sensitive | nagging | niggling | overconscientious | overcritical | overfastidious | overmeticulous | overnice | overparticular | overprecise | overrefined | overscrupulous | oversensitive | oversqueamish | pettifogging | quibbling | trichoschistic | ultracritical See Also | Hypercritical In Webster's Dictionary \Hy`per*crit"ic*al\, a.
1. Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping;
captious. ``Hypercritical readers.'' --Swift.
2. Excessively nice or exact. --Evelyn.
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