hypercritical

from 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}]

from 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]

from 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

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