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Hypercritical synonyms
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overcritical
Inclined to judge too severely; hypercritical.
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  1. Inclined to judge too severely; hypercritical.
  2. Excessively critical.
faultfinding
Disposed to find fault; critical.
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  1. Disposed to find fault; critical.
captious
Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument:
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  1. Intended to entrap or confuse, as in an argument:
  2. Marked by a disposition to find and point out trivial faults:
  3. Made only for the sake of argument or faultfinding
carping
Tending to carp, or find fault; captious
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  1. Tending to carp, or find fault; captious
  2. Naggingly critical or complaining.
censorious
Expressing censure; inclined to find fault; harshly critical
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  1. Expressing censure; inclined to find fault; harshly critical
  2. Addicted to censure and scolding; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
  3. Tending to censure; critical.
critical
Including scholarly commentary and interpretation:
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  1. Including scholarly commentary and interpretation:
  2. Extremely important or essential:
  3. (Physics) Capable of sustaining a nuclear chain reaction:
faultfinding
Disposed to find fault; critical.
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  1. Disposed to find fault; critical.
overcritical
Inclined to judge too severely; hypercritical.
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  1. Inclined to judge too severely; hypercritical.
  2. Excessively critical.
Find another word for hypercritical. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for hypercritical, like: overcritical, , faultfinding, critical, sarcastic, severe, captious, carping, censorious, critical and faultfinding.

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  • These, like the concessions of other apologetic writers, far outweigh the often hypercritical, irrelevant, and superficial objections brought against the literary and historical criticism of Genesis.

  • But Bacon is apparently hypercritical in his estimate of the translators from the Arabic. Another protégé of Frederick's was Hermann the German (Alemannus), who, between the years 1243 and 1256, translated amongst other things a paraphrase of al-Farabi on the Rhetoric, and of Averroes on the Poetics and Ethics of Aristotle.

  • Most teenage girls are hypercritical of themselves and that needs to change.

  • Some only children become hypercritical, not tolerating mistakes or failure in themselves or others.

  • Virgos can be hypercritical of themselves and of others.

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