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1 hipercrítico
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2 criticón
adj.faultfinding, nit-picking, fault-finding, nitpicking.m.faultfinder, nit-picker, nitpicker, criticizer.* * *► adjetivo1 familiar fault finding, nit-picking, hypercritical► nombre masculino,nombre femenino1 familiar fault finder, nit-picker* * *criticón, -ona *1.ADJ hypercritical, critical, faultfindinges muy criticón — he's always finding fault with people, he's hypercritical, he's so critical
2.SM / F faultfinder* * *I- cona adjetivo (fam & pey) critical, hypercriticalII- cona masculino, femenino (fam & pey) faultfinder* * *= nag, caviller [caviler, -USA], quibbler.Ex. No supervisor should be a tiresome nag, but the achievements and failings of a persons's performance deserves mention in a constructive way at timely, regular intervals.Ex. They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.Ex. They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.* * *I- cona adjetivo (fam & pey) critical, hypercriticalII- cona masculino, femenino (fam & pey) faultfinder* * *= nag, caviller [caviler, -USA], quibbler.Ex: No supervisor should be a tiresome nag, but the achievements and failings of a persons's performance deserves mention in a constructive way at timely, regular intervals.
Ex: They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.Ex: They attacked him, not as grammarians and philologists, but as quibblers, cavillers; not with arguments, but insults.* * *( fam pey)1(chismoso): ¡qué criticón es! he's such a terrible gossip ( colloq)2 (quisquilloso) critical, hypercriticales tan criticona she always finds fault with everything, she's so critical o hypercriticalmasculine, feminine( fam pey)12 (quisquilloso) faultfinder* * *
criticón◊ - cona adjetivo (fam &
pey) critical, hypercritical
■ sustantivo masculino, femenino (fam & pey) faultfinder
criticón,-ona adj pey critical: mis colegas son muy criticones, my colleagues are very critical
' criticón' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
criticona
English:
faultfinding
* * *criticón, -ona♦ adjnit-picking, hypercritical;no seas tan criticón don't be so nit-picking, stop criticizing all the time♦ nm,fnit-picker;es un criticón he finds fault with everything, he does nothing but criticize* * *famI adj nit-pickingII m, criticona f nit-picker* * * -
3 hipercrítico
adj.hypercritical.* * *► adjetivo1 hypercritical* * *ADJ hypercritical* * *hipercrítico -cahypercritical* * *hipercrítico, -a♦ adjhypercritical♦ nm,fhypercritical person;es un hipercrítico he is hypercritical* * *adj hypercritical* * *hipercrítico, -ca adj: hypercritical -
4 juzgón
ADJ CAm, Méx hypercritical, carpingk I[ka]= K SF (=letra) K, k IISee:* * *ser juzgón to be nitpicking, be a nitpicker* * *juzgón, -ona adjCAm, Méx Fam overcritical;es muy juzgón nothing's good enough for him, he's a real nitpicker -
5 triscón
ADJ And hypercritical, overcritical
См. также в других словарях:
Hypercritical — Hy per*crit ic*al, a. 1. Over critical; unreasonably or unjustly critical; carping; captious. Hypercritical readers. Swift. [1913 Webster] 2. Excessively nice or exact. Evelyn. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
hypercritical — index critical (faultfinding), particular (exacting), querulous, sensitive (easily affected), severe … Law dictionary
hypercritical — c.1600, from HYPER (Cf. hyper ) + CRITICAL (Cf. critical) … Etymology dictionary
hypercritical — captious, caviling, carping, censorious, faultfinding, *critical Analogous words: finicky, fastidious, fussy, pernickety, squeamish, particular (see NICE) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
hypercritical — [adj] captious carping, caviling, censorious, critical, demanding, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hair splitting, hard to please, niggling, nit picking, overcritical, persnickety; concepts 267,404 … New thesaurus
hypercritical — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ excessively and unreasonably critical … English terms dictionary
hypercritical — [hī΄pər krit′i kəl] adj. too critical; too severe in judgment; hard to please SYN. CRITICAL hypercritically adv. hypercriticism n … English World dictionary
hypercritical — hypocritical, hypercritical see hyper , hypo … Modern English usage
hypercritical — adjective Date: 1605 meticulously or excessively critical Synonyms: see critical • hypercritically adverb … New Collegiate Dictionary
hypercritical — hypercritically, adv. /huy peuhr krit i keuhl/, adj. excessively or meticulously critical; overcritical. [1595 1605; HYPER + CRITICAL] * * * … Universalium
hypercritical — adjective Meticulously or excessively critical. Syn: overcritical … Wiktionary