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Definition 2025
hypercorrect
hypercorrect
English
Alternative forms
- hyper-correct
Adjective
hypercorrect (comparative more hypercorrect, superlative most hypercorrect)
- (grammar) incorrect because of a mistaken idea of standard usage
- The often exaggerated addition of /h/ before words like "out" in written Cockney is a hypercorrect affectation.
Derived terms
- hypercorrection, hyper-correction
- hypercorrective, hyper-corrective
- hypercorrectness, hyper-correctness
Translations
incorrect because of mistaken idea of correctness
Verb
hypercorrect (third-person singular simple present hypercorrects, present participle hypercorrecting, simple past and past participle hypercorrected)
- (transitive) To change (a word or phrase) to an incorrect form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.