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hypercorrective

adj

Etymology

From hyper- + corrective.

  1. borrowed from correctif
  2. prefixed as hypercorrective — “hyper + corrective”

Definitions

  1. Tending to hypercorrect

    Tending to hypercorrect; pertaining to hypercorrection.

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hypercorrective. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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