hypercorrect
adjEtymology
Back-formation from hypercorrection, equivalent to hyper- + correct.
Definitions
Nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage.
To change (a word or phrase) to a nonstandard form, or to another option among a set of…
To change (a word or phrase) to a nonstandard form, or to another option among a set of accepted alternative-form options, in the mistaken belief that the form used was wrong.
- I use reduplicate to mean "redouble," though both words should mean "quadruple," but English is funny that way, so hold off on the hypercorrecting "gotcha!"
To correct excessively.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hypercorrect. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA