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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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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