Meanings
adjectivehypercorrective (comparative more hypercorrective, superlative most hypercorrective)
comparative more hypercorrective · superlative most hypercorrective · alternative hyper-corrective
- 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
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