overcritical
/əʊvəˈkrɪtɪk(ə)l
/adjective
Inclined to find fault too readily: she’d been overcritical of Margaret one couldn’t help being overcritical of one’s own performance...
- Again, I am not trying to be overcritical of them, but let's be realistic.
- People are traditionally overcritical of their own work.
Synonyms
fault-finding, hypercritical, captious, carping, cavilling, quibbling, hair-splitting, hard to please, over-censorious, over-particular;
fussy, finicky, fastidious, meticulous, pedantic, over-exacting, overscrupulous, punctilious, perfectionist;
Scottish & Irish pass-remarkable
informal nitpicking, pernickety
archaic overnice
- Coulomb's law
- coulrophobia
- coulter
- coumarin
- coumarone
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- council estate
- Council for Mutual Economic Assistance
- council house
- councillor
- councillorship
- councilman
- council of ministers
- council of war
- councilor
- council tax
- councilwoman
- counsel
- counseling
- counselling
- counsellor
- Counsellor of State
- counselor
- counselor-at-law