Word.ws English Dictionary

hyper-correct

hyper-correct is the alternative form of hypercorrect.

Meaning of hypercorrect

Adjective

hypercorrect (comparative more hypercorrect, superlative most hypercorrect)

  1. Nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage.

See all 3 meanings of hypercorrect

Forms of hyper-correct

comparativemore hyper-correct
superlativemost hyper-correct

Words formed from hyper-correct

Questions about hyper-correct

What is hyper-correct the alternative form of?
Hyper-correct is the alternative form of hypercorrect.

Words near hyper-correct in the dictionary

  1. hyper-Calvinism
  2. hyper-capitalism
  3. hyper-chaos
  4. hyper-chaotic
  5. hyper-converged
  6. hyper-correct
  7. hyper-correction
  8. hyper-corrections
  9. hyper-correctism
  10. hyper-correctisms
  11. hyper-corrective

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hyper-correct (page history and authors); hypercorrect (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “hyper-correct.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/hyper-correct. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.