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Antonyms for hyper-critical
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : hahy-per-krit-i-kuh l |
Phonetic Transcription : ˌhaɪ pərˈkrɪt ɪ kəl |
- admiring
- careless
- cheerful
- commendatory
- complimentary
- easy
- easy-going
- encouraging
- flattering
- flexible
- forgiving
- giving
- gracious
- happy
- inaccurate
- indifferent
- indiscriminating
- inexact
- laudatory
- lending
- lenient
- loose
- mild
- nice
- pleasant
- polite
- praising
- ready
- respectful
- soft
- tolerant
- trivial
- uncareful
- uncouth
- uncritical
- undemanding
- unfussy
- unimportant
- unpicky
- willing
- yielding
Definition of hyper-critical
Origin :- c.1600, from hyper- + critical.
- As in irritable : adj bad-tempered, crabby
- As in sharp-tongued : adj critical
- As in squeamish : adj nauseated; finicky
- As in scornful : adj given to scorning
- As in captious : adj very critical
- As in carping : adj complaining
- As in censorious : adj very critical
- As in overcritical : adj critical
- As in critical : adj fault-finding, detracting
- As in exacting : adj demanding
- As in fastidious : adj very careful, meticulous
- As in fault-finding : adj critical
- As in hypercritical : adj captious
- But then, on occasions, he was disposed to be hyper-critical.
- Extract from : « The Silent House » by Fergus Hume
- The hyper-critical spirit is fatal to growth under any condition.
- Extract from : « Craftsmanship in Teaching » by William Chandler Bagley
- He was fastidious and hyper-critical to a degree, and he wished her ring to suit her, to be flawless.
- Extract from : « The Purple Heights » by Marie Conway Oemler
Synonyms for hyper-critical
- accusatory
- acrimonious
- analytical
- annoyed
- arrogant
- bearish
- belittling
- bellyaching
- biting
- brooding
- burdensome
- by the book
- calumniatory
- cantankerous
- captious
- careful
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- chiding
- choleric
- choosy
- complaining
- condemnatory
- condemning
- contemptuous
- contentious
- contrary
- crabbed
- crabby
- critic
- critical
- criticizing
- cross
- crotchety
- culpatory
- cursing
- cutting
- cynical
- dainty
- delicate
- demanding
- demeaning
- denouncing
- deprecating
- deprecatory
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- difficult
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disdainful
- disgusted
- disparaging
- disputatious
- dissatisfied
- dizzy
- dyspeptic
- easily disgusted
- easily offended
- egotistic
- exacting
- exasperated
- exceptive
- exigent
- fastidious
- fault-finding
- faultfinding
- fiery
- finical
- finicky
- fractious
- fretful
- fretting
- fussbudgety
- fussy
- gloomy
- grievous
- griping
- grouchy
- grousing
- grumbling
- hair-splitting
- hairsplitting
- hard
- hard to please
- harsh
- hasty
- haughty
- hot
- huffy
- humbling
- hypercritical
- ill-humored
- imperious
- insolent
- irascible
- irritable
- kvetching
- lowering
- mean
- mincing
- moaning
- moody
- morose
- nagging
- nasty
- nice
- niggling
- nit-picking
- nit-picky
- onerous
- oppressive
- out of humor
- overbearing
- overcritical
- overdelicate
- overnice
- oversensitive
- painstaking
- particular
- peevish
- penetrating
- persnickety
- perverse
- pettifogging
- petulant
- picky
- plaintive
- precise
- prickly
- prim
- prudish
- punctilious
- puritanical
- qualmish
- queasy
- queer
- querulous
- quibbling
- quick-tempered
- reprehending
- reproachful
- reproaching
- resentful
- rigid
- rigorous
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scathing
- scolding
- scrupulous
- sensitive
- severe
- shaky
- sharp
- sick
- sick to one's stomach
- sickly
- snappy
- snarling
- sneering
- snooty
- squeamish
- stern
- stickling
- strait-laced
- strict
- stringent
- supercilious
- surly
- taxing
- tense
- testy
- touchy
- tough
- trenchant
- trying
- unsettled
- unsparing
- upset
- vertiginous
- weighty
- whining
- withering
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