Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HY-PER-CRIT'IC, or HY-PER-CRIT'IC-AL
HY-PER-CAT-A-LEC'TICHY-PER-CRIT'IC
HY-PER-CRIT'IC, or HY-PER-CRIT'IC-AL, a.
- Over critical; critical beyond use or reason; animadverting on faults with unjust severity; as, a hypercritical reader. Swift.
- Excessively nice or exact; as, a hypercritical punctilio. Evelyn.
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