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Definition of Hypercritical
1. Adjective. Inclined to judge too severely. "The overcritical teacher can discourage originality"
Definition of Hypercritical
1. a. Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious.
Definition of Hypercritical
1. Adjective. Meticulously or excessively critical. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hypercritical
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypercritical
Literary usage of Hypercritical
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Inebriety; Its Source, Prevention, and Cure by Charles Follen Palmer (1898)
"... CONTINUED PROGRESS IN BUILDING UP MORAL MANHOOD The Hypercritical Condition of
... Hypercritical ..."
2. Inebriety; Its Source, Prevention, and Cure by Charles Follen Palmer (1898)
"... CONTINUED PROGRESS IN BUILDING UP MORAL MANHOOD The Hypercritical Condition
of Mind with Regard to Our Fellow-men very Destructive to Mental Health The ..."
3. Stories of American Life; by American Writers by Mary Russell Mitford (1830)
"Perhaps you may shed a hypercritical tear when you read the verses which Rolla will
... hypercritical ..."
4. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1861)
"We may seem hypercritical, but we perceive that the most experienced opinion on
this question is jealous of fiction taking up nursing as an element of the ..."
5. History of Roman Literature: From It's Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1823)
"It is evident, at first view, that many of Wolf's observations are hypercritical;
and that in his argument concerning the encomiums on Caesar, ..."
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