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hypercritical

[ hahy-per-krit-i-kuhl ]

adjective

  1. excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical.


hypercritical

/ ˌhaɪpəˈkrɪtɪkəl /

adjective

  1. excessively or severely critical; carping; captious
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Derived Forms

  • ˌhyperˈcritiˌcism, noun
  • ˌhyperˈcritic, noun
  • ˌhyperˈcritically, adverb
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Other Words From

  • hyper·criti·cal·ly adverb
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Word History and Origins

Origin of hypercritical1

First recorded in 1595–1605; hyper- + critical
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Example Sentences

“Being a current player you can’t really be too hypercritical or too nitpicky about either team because these are my teammates and these are also people I gotta see on the court still,” she said.

“There were some really odd things, but I just thought maybe I was being hypercritical,” she said.

Clarke Schmidt said it was probably one of the team’s better flights as far as turbulence goes, but that his teammates were hypercritical on the landing a little bit.

“Kind of by default, he is a hypercritical person of art or media. He’s a very natural like writer because he’s a real student of film and television.”

My mother and her peers were groomed by society to be hypercritical of themselves and later, of their daughters.

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