overcritical
1overcritical — index critical (faultfinding), nonconsenting, particular (exacting), querulous Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …
2overcritical — [spelling only] …
3overcritical — adjective overcritical parents Syn: fault finding, hypercritical, captious, carping, caviling, quibbling, hair splitting, overparticular; fussy, finicky, fastidious, pedantic, overscrupulous, punctilious; informal nitpicking, persnickety …
4overcritical — overcritically, adv. overcriticalness, n. /oh veuhr krit i keuhl/, adj. excessively critical; hypercritical. [1850 55; OVER + CRITICAL] * * * …
5overcritical — adjective Excessively critical. Syn: hypercritical …
6overcritical — Synonyms and related words: captious, carping, caviling, cavilling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, difficult, exacting, fastidious, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hair splitting, hairsplitting, harsh, hypercritical,… …
7overcritical — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. domineering, harsh, hypercritical, finicky, picky, niggling; see also severe 1 , 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Inclined to judge too severely: captious, carping, censorious, critical, faultfinding,… …
8overcritical — adj. excessively critical of oneself or others, critical in an exaggerated manner …
9overcritical — adjective inclined to find fault too readily …
10overcritical — adj 1. hypercritical, particular, overparticular, fussy, finicky, picky, hairsplitting, Inf. choosy, fastidious; dainty, Inf. fuddy duddy, Inf. pernickety, discriminating, painstaking. 2. complaining, carping, censorious, querulous; difficult,… …
