hypercorrect

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To change (a word or phrase) to a nonstandard form, or to another option among a set of accepted alternative-form options, in the mistaken belief that the form used was wrong. transitive
    — I use reduplicate to mean "redouble," though both words should mean "quadruple," but English is funny that way, so hold off on the hypercorrecting "gotcha!"
  2. To correct excessively. rare,transitive
    — Likewise, both the chapcha that accompanies the modern Hebrew handshake and the explicit demand to shake hands like a "male" stem from the need to overcompensate (or hypercorrect) for the effeminacy, passivity, feebleness, and bodily unfitness so often ascribed to Jews by other Europeans (especially by Germans) in the nineteenth century.
形容词 adj.
  1. Nonstandard because of a mistaken idea of standard usage.

词形变化

more hypercorrect comparative most hypercorrect superlative hyper-correct alternative hypercorrects present,singular,third-person hypercorrecting participle,present hypercorrected participle,past hypercorrected past hyper-correct alternative

词源

词源 1
Back-formation from hypercorrection, equivalent to hyper- + correct.
词源 2
Back-formation from hypercorrection, equivalent to hyper- + correct.
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