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hypercritical

3 definitions found for hypercritical

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :


  Hypercritical \Hy`per*crit"ic*al\, a.
     1. Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping;
        captious. "Hypercritical readers." --Swift.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. Excessively nice or exact. --Evelyn.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :


  hypercritical
      adj 1: inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of
             colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can
             discourage originality" [syn: hypercritical,
             overcritical]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :


  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "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