hypercorrective
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hyper- + corrective.
Adjective
[edit]hypercorrective (comparative more hypercorrective, superlative most hypercorrective)
- Tending to hypercorrect; pertaining to hypercorrection.
- 2009 September 27, Jack Rosenthal, “Phantonym”, in New York Times[1]:
- You need not be a hypercorrective schoolmarm to lament such tolerance.