Hypercorrect

Synonyms for "hypercorrect"

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Related word relations

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4 relation types

derived

5 entries

derived from

1 entries

has context

1 entries

related to

5 entries

Translations

19 translations across 14 languages.

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Chinese Mandarin

2 entries
  • 矯枉過正的 /矫枉过正的 adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)
  • 糾正過頭的 /纠正过头的 adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Czech

2 entries
  • hyperkorektní adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)
  • hyperspisovný adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Finnish

1 entries
  • hyperkorrekti adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

German

1 entries
  • hyperkorrekt adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Irish

1 entries
  • forcheart adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Italian

1 entries
  • ipercorretto adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Korean

1 entries
  • 과도교정 adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Polish

1 entries
  • hiperpoprawny adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Russian

1 entries
  • гиперкорре́ктный adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries
  • os-cheart adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Serbo-Croatian

2 entries
  • hiperispravan adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)
  • hiperkorektan adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Slovak

2 entries
  • hyperkorektný adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)
  • hyperspisovný adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Slovene

2 entries
  • hiperkorekten adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)
  • nadpravilen adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Spanish

1 entries
  • hipercorrecto adj (nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage)

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

I use reduplicate to mean "redouble," though both words should mean "quadruple," but English is funny that way, so hold off on the hypercorrecting "gotcha!"

Source: wiktionary

Likewise, both the chapcha that accompanies the modern Hebrew handshake and the explicit demand to shake hands like a "male" stem from the need to overcompensate (or hypercorrect) for the effeminacy, passivity, feebleness, and bodily unfitness so often ascribed to Jews by other Europeans (especially by Germans) in the nineteenth century.

Source: wiktionary

But their different life stages also provide the writers with much-needed fuel for conflict. It would be tempting to hypercorrect for the negative media representation of bisexuals by making Darryl infallible, but it's more helpful for the show to simply treat him as human. And that's exactly what McKenna and crew have been so careful to do.

Source: wiktionary

Let everything stand as it was tweeted or posted. We're not fooling anyone by pretending that people don't make typos, that they always know how to spell things correctly, or that they care about standard capitalization rules, and a reader will always be able to find the original tweet (if not least because it's been linked or embedded in the post in which it was quoted), and efforts to hypercorrect can appear silly or stodgy.

Source: wiktionary

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