hypercritical
Meticulously or excessively critical.
Adjective
- Meticulously or excessively critical.
Synonyms: ultracritical
Antonyms: noncritical uncritical
Hypernyms: overcritical critical
Coordinate Terms: anal-retentive choosy conscientious dainty exacting fastidious finical finicking finickity finicky finikin fussy hypercritical lily-handed meticulous niggly nitpickish nit-picky nitty overcritical overscrupulous particular pedantic pernickety
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- Proto-Indo-European *krey- Proto-Indo-European *krinyétider. Proto-Hellenic *kríňňō Ancient Greek κρῑ́νω (krī́nō) Ancient Greek κρῐ- (krĭ-) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek κρῐτής (krĭtḗs) Proto-Indo-European *-kos Ancient Greek -κός (-kós) Ancient Greek -ῐκός (-ĭkós) Ancient Greek κριτικός (kritikós)bor. Latin criticus Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.? Proto-Italic *-ālis Latin -ālisbor. Old French -albor. ▲ Latin -ālis Old French -elbor. ▲ Latin -ālisbor. Middle English -al English -al English critical English hypercritical From hyper- + critical.