Meaning of OVERCRITICAL
Pronunciation: | | 'owvur'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, hypercritical |
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| Related Terms: | | captious, carping, caviling, cavilling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, difficult, exacting, fastidious, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, hair-splitting, harsh, hypercritical, hypersensitive, morbidly sensitive, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overconscientious, overfastidious, overmeticulous, overnice, overparticular, overprecise, overrefined, overscrupulous, oversensitive, oversqueamish, pettifogging, picayune, picky, querulous, quibbling, severe, small, small-minded, trichoschistic, ultracritical |
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