OVERPRECISE

Meaning of OVERPRECISE in English

adj.; overprecisely , adv.; overpreciseness , n.

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

OVERPRECISE — adj. too exact, too precise
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CLERKISH — -kish adjective 1. : clerical 2. a. : suggesting a clerk or the work of a clerk b. : overprecise …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PRECISIAN — (n.) An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly applied to …
Английский словарь Webster
PRECISIAN — ( n. ) An overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance of rules; a formalist; -- formerly …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
PRECISIAN — noun one who limits, or restrains. 2. precisian ·noun an overprecise person; one rigidly or ceremoniously exact in the observance …
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SIMPERING — Synonyms and related words : elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, formalistic, goody good-good, goody-goody, mincing, namby-pamby, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, pedantic, precieuse, …
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PURISTIC — Synonyms and related words : Sabbatarian, bigoted, censorious, choicy, choosy, conscientious, creedbound, critical, discriminating, discriminative, dogmatic, dour, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, …
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PRECISIAN — Synonyms and related words : Babbitt, Middle American, Philistine, anal character, bluestocking, bourgeois, burgher, captious critic, compulsive character, conformer, conformist, …
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PRECIOUS — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, absolute, admired, adored, affected, alembicated, angel, arrant, artful, artificial, babe, baby, baby-doll, …
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PEDANTIC — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Johnsonian, academic, accordant, affected, anal, arid, bedizened, bibliophagic, big-sounding, bluestocking, book-fed, book-learned, book-loving, book-minded, …
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OVERSENSITIVE — Synonyms and related words : allergic, anaphylactic, delicate, empathetic, empathic, goosy, hairsplitting, high-strung, hypercritical, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, irritable, itchy, miffy, …
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OVERREFINED — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, allergic, anaphylactic, apparently sound, artificial, casuistic, chichi, colorable, deceptive, delicate, disingenuous, …
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OVERNICE — Synonyms and related words : Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, artificial, chichi, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, formalistic, goody good-good, …
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OVERCRITICAL — Synonyms and related words : captious, carping, caviling, cavilling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, difficult, exacting, fastidious, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, …
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OVERCONSCIENTIOUS — Synonyms and related words : careful, conscientious, fastidious, hairsplitting, hypercritical, hypersensitive, meticulous, morbidly sensitive, nice, overcritical, overfastidious, overmeticulous, overnice, overparticular, …
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NAMBY PAMBY — Synonyms and related words : Milquetoast, baby, banal, bathetic, bathos, beery, betwixt and between, big baby, bland, bleeding heart, breakable, …
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MINCING — Synonyms and related words : affected, dainty, dandyish, delicate, effeminate, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, foppish, formalistic, …
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HYPERSENSITIVE — Synonyms and related words : allergic, anaphylactic, delicate, empathetic, empathic, goosy, hairsplitting, high-strung, hypercritical, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, irritable, itchy, miffy, morbidly …
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HYPERCRITICAL — Synonyms and related words : captious, carping, caviling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, faultfinding, hairsplitting, hypersensitive, morbidly sensitive, nagging, niggling, overconscientious, …
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HAIRSPLITTING — Synonyms and related words : adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, …
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GOODY GOODY — Synonyms and related words : Lord Fauntleroy, Pecksniffian, Percy, Tartuffian, Tartuffish, Victorian, affected, bluenose, canting, chicken, cream puff, effeminate, elegant, …
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FORMALISTIC — Synonyms and related words : accordant, anal, bourgeois, compulsive, concordant, conformist, conventional, conventionalized, corresponding, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, extrinsic, formal, …
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EXQUISITE — Synonyms and related words : Beau Brummel, accurate, acute, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, agreeable, ambrosial, appealing, attentive, attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bewitching, …
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EUPHEMISTIC — Synonyms and related words : elegant, euphuistic, exquisite, formalistic, goody good-good, goody-goody, mincing, namby-pamby, overnice, overprecise, overrefined, pedantic, precieuse, precious, …
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ELEGANT — Synonyms and related words : Attic, Babylonian, Ciceronian, Corinthian, advantageous, aesthetic, aesthetically appealing, apt, arabesque, artistic, attractive, august, auspicious, awe-inspiring, …
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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