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adjective
- 1. characterized by or fond of small and overfine distinctions: "the legal experts have a particularly hair-splitting mentality"
noun
- 1. the action of making small and overfine distinctions; quibbling.
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Definition of hair-splitting noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1. modifier Of or characterized by minute and irrelevant differences or details in an argument. There have been some hair-splitting changes to the script, but other than that, it's the same as it ever was. A: "Um, your portion of the bill is actually $25.97, not $25.79."
Hairsplitting definition: the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.. See examples of HAIRSPLITTING used in a sentence.
In short: "Splitting hairs" refers to making overly detailed or minor distinctions. It means focusing on small, often unimportant details during discussions or debates. What Does "Split Hairs" Mean? The phrase "split hairs" stands for making fine or minute distinctions.
hair-splitting. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English ˈhair-splitting noun [ uncountable] when people pay too much attention to small differences and unimportant details, especially in an argument → split hairs Examples from the Corpus hair-splitting • This is the kind of disingenuous hair-splitting that gives politics a bad name.
Definitions of hairsplitting. noun. making too fine distinctions of little importance. “they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously”. synonyms: word-splitting. see more. see less. type of: differentiation, distinction.
Noun. [ edit] hair - splitting ( countable and uncountable, plural hair-splittings) ( idiomatic) the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people. Synonyms. [ edit] hair-splittery. quibbling. pilpul. Translations. [ edit]
