Overcritical

2 definitions found

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

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



  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "overcritical":
     captious, carping, caviling, cavilling, censorious, critic,
     critical, cynical, demanding, difficult, exacting, fastidious,
     faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hair-splitting, hairsplitting, 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