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hypercorrective

hypercorrective adjective: tending to hypercorrect; pertaining to hypercorrection.

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 hypercorrective

comparativemore hypercorrective
superlativemost hypercorrective
alternative formhyper-corrective

Origin of hypercorrective

From hyper- + corrective.

Words formed from hypercorrective

Questions about hypercorrective

What does hypercorrective mean?
Hypercorrective means tending to hypercorrect; pertaining to hypercorrection.
What part of speech is hypercorrective?
Hypercorrective is an adjective.

Words near hypercorrective in the dictionary

  1. hypercorrecting
  2. hypercorrection
  3. hypercorrections
  4. hypercorrectism
  5. hypercorrectisms
  6. hypercorrective
  7. hypercorrectively
  8. hypercorrectly
  9. hypercorrectness
  10. hypercorrects
  11. hypercorticism

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