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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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Hair-splitting is the act of giving too much importance to small and unimportant differences in an argument. Learn how to use this idiom with synonyms, pronunciation and pictures from OxfordLearnersDictionaries.com.
Hair-splitting means paying attention to very small or unimportant details in an argument or discussion. It can be used as a modifier or a noun. See examples, synonyms, and related idioms.
Hairsplitting definition: the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.. See examples of HAIRSPLITTING used in a sentence.
Learn the meaning and origin of the idiom "split hairs," which means to make fine distinctions or argue about minor details. See examples, synonyms, and usage in pop culture and business.
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]
