hypercorrect

As a noun taxonomy

is the science or the technique used to make a classification.

As an adjective hypercorrect is

(grammar) incorrect because of a mistaken idea of standard usage.

As a verb hypercorrect is

to change (a word or phrase) to an incorrect form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.

As an adjective hypercorrect is

(grammar) incorrect because of a mistaken idea of standard usage.

As a verb hypercorrect is

to change (a word or phrase) to an incorrect form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.

As an adjective hypercorrect

is (grammar) incorrect because of a mistaken idea of standard usage.

As a verb hypercorrect

is to change (a word or phrase) to an incorrect form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.

As an adverb hypercorrectly is

in a hypercorrect manner.

Hypercorrect is a hypernym of hyperforeign.

As adjectives the difference between hypercorrect and hyperforeign

is that hypercorrect is (grammar) incorrect because of a mistaken idea of standard usage while hyperforeign is (linguistics) resulting from the misapplication of foreign reading rules, such as dropping the ‘t’ in claret.

As a verb hypercorrect

is to change (a word or phrase) to an incorrect form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage.

Overcorrect is a related term of hypercorrect.

As verbs the difference between hypercorrect and overcorrect

is that hypercorrect is to change (a word or phrase) to an incorrect form in the mistaken belief that it is standard usage while overcorrect is to correct too sharply or too much.

As an adjective hypercorrect

is incorrect because of a mistaken idea of standard usage.