Synonyms for hypercritical
- adjective
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Adjective
Definitions
- adj. 1
Meticulously or excessively critical.
Related words
- Is a kind of
- overcritical critical
Example sentences
- censorious Censorious people delight in casting blame.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| hypercritical | falling | |
| carping | falling | |
| censorious | rising | |
| captious | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- carping2
- 8 letters
- critical3, captious
- 10 letters
- particular4, fastidious4, censorious
- 12 letters
- overcritical
- 13 letters
- ultracritical
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (carping2 = 2 syllables).