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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. inclined to judge too severely;
- Example: "hypercritical of colloquial speech"
- Example: "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"
[syn: hypercritical, overcritical]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

28 Moby Thesaurus words for "hypercritical":
   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