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Meaning of "hypercorrectly" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HYPERCORRECTLY

ˌhaɪpəkəˈrɛktlɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPERCORRECTLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hypercorrectly is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES HYPERCORRECTLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hypercorrectly in the English dictionary

The definition of hypercorrectly in the dictionary is in a hypercorrect manner.



WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPERCORRECTLY

abjectly · abstractly · adjunctly · circumspectly · compactly · conjunctly · correctly · directly · distinctly · erectly · exactly · imperfectly · incorrectly · indirectly · indistinctly · matter-of-factly · perfectly · selectly · strictly · succinctly

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPERCORRECTLY

hypercautious · hypercharge · hypercholesterolaemia · hypercholesterolemia · hypercivilised · hypercivilized · hypercoagulable · hypercomplex · hyperconnectivity · hyperconscious · hypercorrect · hypercorrection · hypercorrectness · hypercritic · hypercritical · hypercritically · hypercriticise · hypercriticism · hypercriticize · hypercube

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPERCORRECTLY

apparently · consistently · constantly · currently · differently · frequently · greatly · honestly · independently · instantly · intactly · mostly · not exactly · partly · recently · shortly · significantly · slightly · subsequently · unperfectly

Synonyms and antonyms of hypercorrectly in the English dictionary of synonyms

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The translations of hypercorrectly from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hypercorrectly» in English.
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हायपरकोरेस्टेने
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPERCORRECTLY»

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Language, Power and Ideology: Studies in Political Discourse
DOS! isnot italicized, because this is a hypercorrectly applied dialect form and not part of the dialect which would have !D3s!. Due to this hypercorrect application, this form is typically middle-class and thus not stigmatized. This is a good ...
Ruth Wodak, 1989
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Frequency and the Emergence of Linguistic Structure
Further investigation of frequency data brought to light the additional discovery that you and I specifically, not X and I in general, is the context in which / is most commonly used hypercorrectly as an object. The pattern present in the data ...
Joan L. Bybee, Paul Hopper, 2001
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An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
His earlier study had led him to conclude that lower middle-class speakers crossover, i.e., behave hypercorrectly, so far as the use of r is concerned. That is, they tend to 'over-produce' r sounds when they try to emulate what they perceive to be ...
Ronald Wardhaugh, 2011
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Yearbook of Morphology 2004
The etymologically 'correct' forms with final velars ultimately prevailed, but the velar was then extended, 'hypercorrectly', to vengo for vegno 'I come', salgo for saglio 'I go up', etc. 5. ROMANCE STRESS-RELATED VOCALIC ALTERNATIONS ...
G. E. Booij, Jaap van Marle, 2006
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The Reality of Linguistic Rules
At the other, high-frequency extreme are examples like the case of one unusually self-conscious French-speaker who, in a task involving the reading of unpaired items on a list of words and short phrases, hypercorrectly added [h] before ...
Susan D. Lima, Roberta Corrigan, Gregory K. Iverson, 1994
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Studies in Etymology and Etiology: With Emphasis on ...
It would be good to see whether it has been used non-exotically in El Salvador, Costa Rica, or Panama. 73 Santamaría thus seemed to be using the subjunctive hypercorrectly, a mistake common in English among those who think that if ...
David L. Gold, Antonio Lillo Buades, Félix Rodríguez González, 2009
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The Language of the Papyri
against Phoebammon ... Conversely, the use of after in no. 16, a unique example in the DDBDP, shows the overlap also at work in the opposite direction. The adverb was used hypercorrectly, again by another hand to add an afterthought. 16.
T. V. Evans, D. D. Obbink, 2009
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An Entertaining Tale of Quadrupeds
And among the discourse particles, ydp, “because,” (occurring 33 times in the text ) is used hypercorrectly as a filler—for example, in verses 614 and 968. The admixture of archaic elements pervades both the vocabulary and morphology of the ...
‎2013
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Colloquial and Literary Latin
Inst. 7.2.44 (though later writers were to use it thus with abandon); writing in an age when dies was often made feminine against the Republican rule, at 1.25.15, 3.4.1 he hypercorrectly uses the masculine for an appointed day. 17 Thus at Per.
Eleanor Dickey, Anna Chahoud, 2010
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Linguistic and Cultural Studies on Arabic and Hebrew: Essays ...
... jLo_«_LJ J J I In □» o jxJb I j_J_a 'and you see that they are materialists, who assert that the universe is devoid of a creator,13 deny baptism14 and resurrection and reject prophecy and apostleship', using hypercorrectly the ending instead ...
J. Rosenhouse, Ami Elad, 2001

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPERCORRECTLY»

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Out of Africa
Americans will pronounce it hypercorrectly, with the “a” sound too shortened. “D'Car.” Sort of the way they say “Khaaan” instead of “Can” when ... «Salon, Jan 12»
REFERENCE
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