Definition of Hypercritical

1. Adjective. Inclined to judge too severely. "The overcritical teacher can discourage originality"

Exact synonyms: Overcritical
Similar to: Critical

Definition of Hypercritical

1. a. Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious.

Definition of Hypercritical

1. Adjective. Meticulously or excessively critical. ¹

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Definition of Hypercritical

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypercritical

hypercorrected
hypercorrecting
hypercorrection
hypercorrections
hypercorrective
hypercorrectly
hypercorrectness
hypercorrects
hypercorticoidism
hypercortisolism
hypercortisolisms
hypercortisonemia
hypercreative
hypercreativity
hypercritic
hypercritical
hypercritical point
hypercritical points
hypercriticality
hypercritically
hypercriticalness
hypercriticism
hypercriticisms
hypercriticize
hypercriticized
hypercriticizes
hypercriticizing
hypercritick
hypercritics
hypercryalgesia

Literary usage of Hypercritical

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Inebriety; Its Source, Prevention, and Cure by Charles Follen Palmer (1898)
"... CONTINUED PROGRESS IN BUILDING UP MORAL MANHOOD The Hypercritical Condition of ... Hypercritical ..."

2. Inebriety; Its Source, Prevention, and Cure by Charles Follen Palmer (1898)
"... CONTINUED PROGRESS IN BUILDING UP MORAL MANHOOD The Hypercritical Condition of Mind with Regard to Our Fellow-men very Destructive to Mental Health The ..."

3. Stories of American Life; by American Writers by Mary Russell Mitford (1830)
"Perhaps you may shed a hypercritical tear when you read the verses which Rolla will ... hypercritical ..."

4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1861)
"We may seem hypercritical, but we perceive that the most experienced opinion on this question is jealous of fiction taking up nursing as an element of the ..."

5. History of Roman Literature: From It's Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1823)
"It is evident, at first view, that many of Wolf's observations are hypercritical; and that in his argument concerning the encomiums on Caesar, ..."

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