hypercritic
hypercritical
Adjective
- hypercritical
Origin
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Hellenic *hupér Ancient Greek ῠ̔πέρ (hŭpér) Ancient Greek ῠ̔περ- (hŭper-)der. English hyper- English critic English hypercritic From hyper- + critic.
Forms
Noun
- A carping or unduly censorious critic.
- 'Tis worth our conſideration, a little to examine how much theſe Hypercritiques of Engliſh Poetry, differ from the opinion of the Greek and Latine Judges of Antiquity: […] - 1674 (date written), John Dryden, “The...