Adjective: hypercorrect
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more hypercorrect |
| Superlative | most hypercorrect |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like hypercorrect
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Back-formation from hypercorrection, equivalent to hyper- + correct.
Verbs referencing "hypercorrect"
Finnish Adjectives
hyperkorrekti.