HAIRSPLITTING

Meaning of HAIRSPLITTING in English

noun the act or practice of making trivial distinctions.

2. hairsplitting ·adj making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle.

Webster English vocab. Английский словарь Webster. 2012

HAIRSPLITTING — adjective or noun see: hairsplitter
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
HAIRSPLITTING — I. ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ adjective : making excessively fine or trivial distinctions in reasoning ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading — Charles …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
HAIRSPLITTING — (n.) The act or practice of making trivial distinctions.
Английский словарь Webster
HAIRSPLITTING — (a.) Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle.
Английский словарь Webster
HAIRSPLITTING — ( n. ) The act or practice of making trivial distinctions.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
HAIRSPLITTING — ( a. ) Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
HAIRSPLITTING — — hairsplitter , n. /hair"split'ing/ , n. 1. the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions. adj. 2. characterized by such distinctions: …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HAIRSPLITTING — n. making unnecessarily fine distinctions in reasoning; quibbling
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
HAIRSPLITTING — see hairsplitter
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HAIRSPLITTING — Synonyms and related words : adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
HAIRSPLITTING — n. Function: adjective Synonyms: FINE 1, delicate, finespun, hairline, nice, refined, subtle
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocab
HAIRSPLITTING — adjective Synonyms: fine 1, delicate, finespun, hairline, nice, refined, subtle
Collegiate Thesaurus English vocabulary
HAIRSPLITTING — крохоборство hairsplitting мелкий; пустяковый, незначительный ~ мелочный педантизм
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HAIRSPLITTING — Мелочный педантизм
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
HAIRSPLITTING — мелочный педантизм; мелочные придирки; придирки по пустякам
Subsidiary English-Russian Dictionary
HAIRSPLITTING — крохоборство hairsplitting мелкий; пустяковый, незначительный ~ мелочный педантизм
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
HAIRSPLITTING — мелочный педантизм
English-Russian Online Dictionary
HAIRSPLITTER — noun Date: 1849 one that makes excessively fine distinctions in reasoning, hairsplitting adjective or noun
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
STARE DECISIS — (Latin; " let the decision stand ") In common law , the doctrine under which courts adhere to precedent on …
Английский словарь Британика
FINE — I. fine ˈfīn noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English fin, fine, from Old French fin, from Latin finis boundary, …
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DOCTRINAL — I. ˈdäktrə̇n ə l, Brit often & US sometimes däkˈtrīn ə l noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, from …
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SPLIT HAIRS — phrasal : to make oversubtle or trivial distinctions : engage in hairsplitting
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PILPUL — ˈpilˌpül noun ( -s ) Etymology: Aramaic & Hebrew pilpūl, from pilpēl to search, argue : critical analysis and hairsplitting …
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PIFFLING — -f(ə)liŋ adjective Etymology: from present participle of piffle (I) : trivial brushed aside this piffling bit of legalistic hairsplitting — …
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MOURN — ˈmō(ə)rn, ˈmȯ(ə)rn, ˈmōən, ˈmȯ(ə)n verb ( -ed/-ing/-s ) Etymology: Middle English mournen, mornen, from Old English murnan; akin to Old …
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HAIRSPLITTER — ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun : one that indulges in hairsplitting : quibbler
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HAIR-DRAWN — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective : hairsplitting impatient of such hair-drawn distinctions — S.H.Adams
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FINESPUN — ˈ ̷ ̷| ̷ ̷ adjective 1. : developed or elaborated with extreme care, skill, delicacy, ingenuity the satire touches also, with finespun ridicule, …
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EXCESSIVE — ikˈsesiv, (ˈ)ek|s-, -esēv also -esəv adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French excessif, from Medieval Latin excessivus, from Latin excessus …
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DIALECTIC — ˌdīəˈlektik, -tēk noun ( -s ) Etymology: alteration (influenced by Latin dialectica ) of Middle English dialetik, from Middle French …
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TALMUDIC — /tahl mood"ik, tal-/ , adj. 1. of or pertaining to the Talmud. 2. characterized by or making extremely fine distinctions; …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
WORD SPLITTING — n. act of giving great importance to trivial matters; hairsplitting, making unnecessarily fine distinctions in reasoning
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Webster English vocab

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