- hypercritical
- adjective Date: 1605 meticulously or excessively critical Synonyms: see critical • hypercritically adverb
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
hypercritical
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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] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
hypercritical — index critical (faultfinding), particular (exacting), querulous, sensitive (easily affected), severe … Law dictionary
hypercritical — c.1600, from HYPER (Cf. hyper ) + CRITICAL (Cf. critical) … Etymology dictionary
hypercritical — captious, caviling, carping, censorious, faultfinding, *critical Analogous words: finicky, fastidious, fussy, pernickety, squeamish, particular (see NICE) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
hypercritical — [adj] captious carping, caviling, censorious, critical, demanding, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hair splitting, hard to please, niggling, nit picking, overcritical, persnickety; concepts 267,404 … New thesaurus
hypercritical — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ excessively and unreasonably critical … English terms dictionary
hypercritical — [hī΄pər krit′i kəl] adj. too critical; too severe in judgment; hard to please SYN. CRITICAL hypercritically adv. hypercriticism n … English World dictionary
hypercritical — hypocritical, hypercritical see hyper , hypo … Modern English usage
hypercritical — hypercritically, adv. /huy peuhr krit i keuhl/, adj. excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical. [1595 1605; HYPER + CRITICAL] * * * … Universalium
hypercritical — adjective Meticulously or excessively critical. Syn: overcritical … Wiktionary
