'Hypercritical' definitions:
Definition of 'hypercritical'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality" [syn: hypercritical, overcritical]
Definition of 'Hypercritical'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'hypercritical'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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