hypercorrective

English

Alternative forms

• hyper-corrective

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ corrective.

Adjective

hypercorrective (comparative more hypercorrective, superlative most hypercorrective)

1. Tending to hypercorrect; pertaining to hypercorrection.
   • 2009 September 27, Jack Rosenthal, “Phantonym”, in The New York Times Magazine‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 8 February 2023:

     You need not be a hypercorrective schoolmarm to lament such tolerance.

Derived terms

• hypercorrectively