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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]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

overcritical 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:

44 Moby Thesaurus words for "overcritical": captious, carping, caviling, cavilling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, difficult, exacting, fastidious, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hair-splitting, hairsplitting, harsh, hypercritical, hypersensitive, morbidly sensitive, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overconscientious, overfastidious, overmeticulous, overnice, overparticular, overprecise, overrefined, overscrupulous, oversensitive, oversqueamish, pettifogging, picayune, picky, querulous, quibbling, severe, small, small-minded, trichoschistic, ultracritical