hypercorrect
Adjective
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002
Adjective
hypercorrect
- (grammar) nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage
- Italian: ipercorretto
- Russian: гиперкорре́ктный
- Spanish: hipercorrecto
hypercorrect (hypercorrects, present participle hypercorrecting; past and past participle hypercorrected)
- (transitive) To change (a word or phrase) to an nonstandard form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.
This text is extracted from the Wiktionary and it is available under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license | Terms and conditions | Privacy policy 0.002