hairsplitter

hairsplitter

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  • Hairsplitter — Hair split ter ( spl[i^]t t[ e]r), n. One who makes excessively fine or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. The caviling hairsplitter. De Quincey. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • hairsplitter — noun Date: 1849 one that makes excessively fine distinctions in reasoning • hairsplitting adjective or noun …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • hairsplitter — noun A person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them) …   Wiktionary

  • hairsplitter — n. petty person, one who argues over unimportant details …   English contemporary dictionary

  • hairsplitter — /ˈhɛəsplɪtə/ (say hairsplituh) noun someone who makes fine or unnecessary distinctions. –hairsplitting, adjective –hairsplitting, noun …  

  • hairsplitter — noun a disputant who makes unreasonably fine distinctions • Hypernyms: ↑disputant, ↑controversialist, ↑eristic * * * ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ noun : one that indulges in hairsplitting : quibbler …   Useful english dictionary

  • hairsplitting — hairsplitter, n. /hair split ing/, n. 1. the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions. adj. 2. characterized by such distinctions: the hairsplitting arguments of a political debate. [1820 30; HAIR + SPLITTING] Syn. 2. quibbling, niggling,… …   Universalium

  • hairsplitting — adjective or noun see hairsplitter …   New Collegiate Dictionary

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