Meaning of HYPERCRITICAL
| Pronunciation: | | `hIpur'kritikul
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| | Definition: | | [adj] inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality" |
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| | Synonyms: | | critical, overcritical |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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