hypercontrolled

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adjective

Very tightly controlled.

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Meanings

adjectivehypercontrolled (not comparable)
  1. not comparableVery 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

From hyper- + controlled.

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APA

hypercontrolled. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypercontrolled

MLA

“hypercontrolled.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypercontrolled. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “hypercontrolled,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hypercontrolled.

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