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hypercontrolled

hypercontrolled adjective: very tightly controlled.

Adjective

hypercontrolled (not comparable)

  1. Very tightly controlled.
    • The paintings are hypercontrolled in one sense and yet pleasantly unpredictable, pitting different notions of trompe l’oeil against abstraction, and idealized modernist flatness against one kind of specificity or another.2007 July 20, The New York Times, “Art in Review”, in New York Times

Origin of hypercontrolled

From hyper- + controlled.

Questions about hypercontrolled

What does hypercontrolled mean?
Hypercontrolled means very tightly controlled.
What part of speech is hypercontrolled?
Hypercontrolled is an adjective.

Words near hypercontrolled in the dictionary

  1. hypercontractions
  2. hypercontractive
  3. hypercontractivity
  4. hypercontracture
  5. hypercontractures
  6. hypercontrolled
  7. hypercontrolling
  8. hyperconverged
  9. hyperconvex
  10. hyperconvexity
  11. hypercool

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