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hyper-corrective

hyper-corrective is the alternative form of hypercorrective.

Meaning of hypercorrective

Adjective

hypercorrective (comparative more hypercorrective, superlative most hypercorrective)

  1. Tending to hypercorrect; pertaining to hypercorrection.
    • You need not be a hypercorrective schoolmarm to lament such tolerance.2009 September 27, Jack Rosenthal, “Phantonym”, in New York Times

Forms of hyper-corrective

comparativemore hyper-corrective
superlativemost hyper-corrective

Questions about hyper-corrective

What is hyper-corrective the alternative form of?
Hyper-corrective is the alternative form of hypercorrective.

Words near hyper-corrective in the dictionary

  1. hyper-correct
  2. hyper-correction
  3. hyper-corrections
  4. hyper-correctism
  5. hyper-correctisms
  6. hyper-corrective
  7. hyper-correctness
  8. hyper-empathetic
  9. hyper-empathy
  10. hyper-empirical
  11. hyper-explosion

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hyper-corrective (page history and authors); hypercorrective (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.

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