hypercalculated
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From hyper- + calculated.
Adjective
[edit]hypercalculated (comparative more hypercalculated, superlative most hypercalculated)
- Extremely calculated; very carefully thought out or planned.
- a hypercalculated decision
- 2024 January 31, Jason Bailey, “Stream These 11 Movies Before They Leave Netflix in February”, in The New York Times[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2024-02-02:
- It's not exactly a promising premise: a washed-up boxer turned sleazy promoter finds a champion on the underground robot-boxing circuit, bonding with his estranged son in the process. To call it hypercalculated is an understatement (our critic parsed its DNA as "'Transformers' meets 'E.T.' meets 'Rocky' meets 'The Champ,'" and that's not far off), but as Roger Ebert liked to say, it's not what a movie's about, but how it's about it.