hypercritical
adjective
hypercritical is an adjective meaning “Meticulously or excessively critical” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-C-R-I-T-I-C-A-L and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 17 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hypercritical mean?
adjective
- 1
Meticulously or excessively critical.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce hypercritical?
Hypercritical has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hypercritical
- more hypercritical comparative
- most hypercritical superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hypercritical?
Hypercritical appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 125,655th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).