OVERCRITICAL

Meaning of OVERCRITICAL in English

■ adjective inclined to find fault too readily.

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OVERCRITICAL — | ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective Etymology: over (I) + critical : hypercritical
Webster's New International English Dictionary
OVERCRITICAL — — overcritically , adv. — overcriticalness , n. /oh"veuhr krit"i keuhl/ , adj. excessively critical; hypercritical. [ 1850-55; OVER- + …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
OVERCRITICAL — adj. excessively critical of oneself or others, critical in an exaggerated manner
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OVERCRITICAL — / ˌəʊvəˈkrɪtɪkl; NAmE ˌoʊvərˈk-/ adjective too critical
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
OVERCRITICAL — adj. excessively critical; quick to find fault.
Английский основной разговорный словарь
OVERCRITICAL — adj. excessively critical; quick to find fault.
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
OVERCRITICAL — adj. excessively critical; quick to find fault.
Oxford English vocab
OVERCRITICAL — Synonyms and related words : captious, carping, caviling, cavilling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, difficult, exacting, fastidious, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
OVERCRITICAL — adj. Function: adjective Synonyms: CRITICAL 1, captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, critic, faultfinding, hypercritical
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OVERCRITICAL — adjective Synonyms: critical 1, captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, critic, faultfinding, hypercritical
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OVERCRITICAL — adj. 25B6; adjective FAULT-FINDING, hypercritical, captious, carping, cavilling, quibbling, hair-splitting, over-particular; fussy, finicky, fastidious, pedantic, over-scrupulous, punctilious; informal nit-picking, pernickety; …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
OVERCRITICAL — adj. supercritical, hypercritical, captious, carping, niggling, cavilling, querulous, fault-finding, finicky, fussy, hair-splitting, difficult, fastidious, harsh, severe, demanding, exacting, small, small-minded, …
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OVERCRITICAL — сверхкритический
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OVERCRITICAL — сверхкритический
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OVERCRITICAL — сверхкритический
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REJECTIVE — rə̇ˈjektiv, rēˈj- adjective : rejecting or tending to reject rejective or overcritical attitudes of disappointed parents — Rudolf Hirschberg
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HYPERCRITICAL — — hypercritically , adv. /huy'peuhr krit"i keuhl/ , adj. excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical. [ 1595-1605; HYPER- + CRITICAL ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HYPERCRITICAL — adj. overcritical, excessively critical
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PYTHAGOREANISM — philosophical school and religious brotherhood, believed to have been founded by Pythagoras of Samos, who settled in Croton in southern …
Britannica English vocabulary
QUIBBLING — Synonyms and related words : adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, …
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OVERSENSITIVE — Synonyms and related words : allergic, anaphylactic, delicate, empathetic, empathic, goosy, hairsplitting, high-strung, hypercritical, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, irritable, itchy, miffy, …
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OVERREFINED — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, allergic, anaphylactic, apparently sound, artificial, casuistic, chichi, colorable, deceptive, delicate, disingenuous, …
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OVERNICE — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, artificial, chichi, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, formalistic, goody good-good, …
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OVERCONSCIENTIOUS — Synonyms and related words : careful, conscientious, fastidious, hairsplitting, hypercritical, hypersensitive, meticulous, morbidly sensitive, nice, overcritical, overfastidious, overmeticulous, overnice, overparticular, …
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NIGGLING — Synonyms and related words : Mickey Mouse, adverse criticism, advertent, agog, alert, all ears, all eyes, animadversion, annoying, aspersion, assiduous, …
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NAGGING — Synonyms and related words : adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, blandishment, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, cajoling, captious, captiousness, …
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HYPERSENSITIVE — Synonyms and related words : allergic, anaphylactic, delicate, empathetic, empathic, goosy, hairsplitting, high-strung, hypercritical, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, irritable, itchy, miffy, morbidly …
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HYPERCRITICAL — Synonyms and related words : captious, carping, caviling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, faultfinding, hairsplitting, hypersensitive, morbidly sensitive, nagging, niggling, overconscientious, …
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HAIRSPLITTING — Synonyms and related words : adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, …
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FAULTFINDING
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CYNICAL — Synonyms and related words : Cassandra-like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Rabelaisian, Timonistic, antisocial, captious, carping, caustic, caviling, critical, defeatist, dismal, downbeat, dry, …
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