How to pronounce “hypercorrect”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• (linguistics) Nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage.
• [Verb]
• (transitive, linguistics) To change (a word or phrase) to a nonstandard form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.
• (transitive, rare) To correct excessively.

Practice Nearby Words

uncorrect, errorous, hyperforeign, ungrammatical, alwrong, heterographic, pseudocorrect, wonky, incorrect, improper, mistaken, misexpressive, erroneous, misspecified, disleading, unproper, out-of-whack, out of whack, wide of the mark, off-beam, wronge, misconstructive, dead-wrong, contrafactive, misslanted, wrong-headed, unfaithful, rong, misinstructive, mispronounced, misstudied, missannotated, autocorrective, condesending, wrong, misused, incondign, misperceptive, misconformed, malaprop, error-prone, tongue-and-cheek, wrong-minded, wrongish, misphenotyped, misdubbed, idem sonans, errorprone, academented, misnominal, maloriented, inaccurate, errorsome, miscoined, malapropos, malformatted, insultive, preposterous, off-key, corrupt, miscolored, misinformational, miscaptioned, perverted, offensive to pious ears, misbranded, impropre, misannotated, inappropriate, wrongous, malinformed, mispositioned, misset, bogus, mistextured, misperforated, mispatterned, misconceived, errored, fictitional, mischievious, miscultured, peccant, brain-damaged, malplaced, inexact, misnomed, falsidical, misnomial, malapropistic, awry, disfunctional, obstrusive, amiss, ass-backwards, misdecoded, pathological, misregulated, mistuned, wrongminded

Similar Sounds

hypocrite, hypocrit, hipocrite, hippocrite, hippy crack, overcorrect, upper crust, supercut, sauerkraut, sourcrout