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English Dictionary: hypercritical by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hypercritical
adj
  1. inclined to judge too severely; "hypercritical of colloquial speech"; "the overcritical teacher can discourage originality"
    Synonym(s): hypercritical, overcritical
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hypercritical \Hy`per*crit"ic*al\, a.
      1. Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping;
            captious. [bd]Hypercritical readers.[b8] --Swift.
  
      2. Excessively nice or exact. --Evelyn.
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