25B6; adjective PEDANTIC, pettifogging; quibbling, niggling, cavilling, carping, critical, overcritical, hypercritical; informal nit-picking, pernickety, picky; N. Amer. informal persnickety.
HAIR-SPLITTING
Meaning of HAIR-SPLITTING in English
Concise Oxford thesaurus English vocabulary. Краткий оксфордский словарь английского языка тезаурус. 2012