Synonyms for "hypercritical" (44 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (9)

criticalovercriticalcaptiouscarpingcavilcavilingcensoriouscriticcynical

Strong matches (13)

Adjective(4 words)

demandingfastidiousfinickylily-handed

exactingfastidiousfault-findingfaultfindinghairsplittinghypersensitivemorbidly sensitivenaggingniggling

Related words (22)

Adjective(4 words)

nittyparticularpernicketyultracritical

overconscientiousoverfastidiousovermeticulousoverniceoverparticularoverpreciseoverrefinedoverscrupulousoversensitiveoversqueamishparticularpettifoggingquerulousquibblingreproachfultrichoschisticultracritical

Adjective(1 words)

overcritical

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

More general

2 entries

criticalovercritical

Synonyms

1 entries

overcritical

Related terms

3 entries

hypercriticismhypercriticizesupercritical

coordinate

25 entries

anal-retentivechoosyconscientiousdaintyexactingfastidiousfinicalfinickingfinickityfinickyfinikinfussylily-handedmeticulousnigglynit-picky

Showing 16 of 25 words.

derived

3 entries

hypercritical pointhypercriticallyhypercriticalness

derived from

1 entries

critical

related to

1 entries

critical

similar

2 entries

critical

Translations

4 translations across 4 languages.

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Afrikaans

1 entries

• hiperkrities adj (overly critical)

Czech

1 entries

• hyperkritický adj (overly critical)

Greek

1 entries

• υπερκριτικός adj (overly critical)

Māori

1 entries

• arerorua adj (overly critical)

Sample sentences

1 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

His hypercritical attitude annoys me a lot.

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