Definition of "hypercorrect" []

• Of, relating to, or marked by hypercorrection. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "It was a nonstandard usage that some grammarians would call "hypercorrect" because the error was made by trying too hard to be correct."
• "Gotcha with the “an professional” but “an history” always seemed hypercorrect to me."
• "They might have spent hours agonizing over the writing of a formal business letter and ended up with a semi-comical paragraph of hypercorrect British English (these guys were mostly Indian and Pakistani) and aural copy errors ("strubroorn" for stubborn was one that took me a while to figure out) and even the poor cats needed a letter and had five dollars."