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hypercritick

hypercritick is the obsolete form of hypercritic.

Meaning of hypercritic

Noun

hypercritic (plural hypercritics)

  1. A carping or unduly censorious critic.
    • 'Tis worth our conſideration, a little to examine how much theſe Hypercritiques of Engliſh Poetry, differ from the opinion of the Greek and Latine Judges of Antiquity: […]1674 (date written), John Dryden, “The Authors Apology for Heroique Poetry; and Poetique Licence”, in The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man: An Opera. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for Henry...

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Forms of hypercritick

pluralhypercriticks

Questions about hypercritick

What is hypercritick the obsolete form of?
Hypercritick is the obsolete form of hypercritic.

Words near hypercritick in the dictionary

  1. hypercriticisms
  2. hypercriticize
  3. hypercriticized
  4. hypercriticizes
  5. hypercriticizing
  6. hypercritick
  7. hypercriticks
  8. hypercritics
  9. hypercrosslinked
  10. hypercrystalline
  11. hypercube

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hypercritick (page history and authors); hypercritic (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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