overcritical

1. 1.

   inclined to judge too severely

   “hypercritical of colloquial speech”

   “the overcritical teacher can discourage originality”

   Synonymshypercritical

   Similarcritical

Questions about overcritical

What does overcritical mean?

overcritical means "inclined to judge too severely".

How many syllables are in overcritical?

overcritical has 5 syllables: o-ver-cri-ti-cal. The stress falls on "cri".

What is another word for overcritical?

Close synonyms include hypercritical. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is overcritical a common word?

overcritical is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.