Hypercritical

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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