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[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