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[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