Hypertext Webster Gateway: "hypercritical"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hypercritical \Hy`per*crit"ic*al\, a.
1. Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping;
captious. ``Hypercritical readers.'' --Swift.
2. Excessively nice or exact. --Evelyn.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hypercritical
adj : inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial
speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage
originality" [syn: {overcritical}]
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