hypercritical

[hahy-per-krit-i-kuhl]

adjective

1. excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical.

hypercritical

/ ˌhaɪpəˈkrɪtɪkəl /

adjective

1. excessively or severely critical; carping; captious

Other Word Forms

• hypercritically adverb
• hypercriticism noun
• hypercritic noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of hypercritical¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; hyper- + critical

Example Sentences

I had a great group of people who were really hypercritical of it when the accent fell off, which wasn’t often because I worked hard.

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Every run that Australia managed to eke out for their final wicket would have gnawed away at Bavuma who was, if we are being hypercritical, guilty of a slight captaincy misstep.

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“Being a current player you can’t really be too hypercritical or too nitpicky about either team because these are my teammates and these are also people I gotta see on the court still,” she said.

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“There were some really odd things, but I just thought maybe I was being hypercritical,” she said.

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Clarke Schmidt said it was probably one of the team’s better flights as far as turbulence goes, but that his teammates were hypercritical on the landing a little bit.

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