Hypercontrolled

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Very tightly controlled. not-comparable

    "The paintings are hypercontrolled in one sense and yet pleasantly unpredictable, pitting different notions of trompe l’oeil against abstraction, and idealized modernist flatness against one kind of specificity or another."

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"The paintings are hypercontrolled in one sense and yet pleasantly unpredictable, pitting different notions of trompe l’oeil against abstraction, and idealized modernist flatness against one kind of specificity or another."

Etymology

From hyper- + controlled.

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