hypercorrective

Tending to hypercorrect; pertaining to hypercorrection.

Adjective

  1. Tending to hypercorrect; pertaining to hypercorrection.
    • You need not be a hypercorrective schoolmarm to lament such tolerance. - 2009 September 27, Jack Rosenthal, “Phantonym”, in New York Times:

Origin

From hyper- + corrective.

Forms

more hypercorrective most hypercorrective hyper-corrective

Derived

hypercorrectively

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