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Excessive focus on minor details or arguments, often to avoid the main point

Excessive attention to insignificant details

Done or made with, or characterized by, care and precision

Inclined to find fault too readily

Academic in manner, often in an annoying or boring way

Of little value or importance

Adhering excessively to law

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Noun

Excessive focus on minor details or arguments, often to avoid the main point

“Despite the productive discussion that was taking place, the hairsplitting among the team members prevented any meaningful progress towards a solution.”

Noun

Excessive attention to insignificant details

Adjective

Done or made with, or characterized by, care and precision

aesthetically pleasing

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“The master chef prepared the most delectable dish with hairsplitting precision, ensuring every ingredient was measured and cooked to perfection.”

Adjective

Inclined to find fault too readily

pass-remarkable

over-censorious

over-particular

difficult to please

unfavourable^UK

impossible to please

on someone's back

unaccommodating

hard to satisfy

high-maintenance

over-fastidious

selfdisciplined

going to great lengths

excessively orderly

easily disgusted

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Adjective

Academic in manner, often in an annoying or boring way

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Adjective

Of little value or importance

inconsequential

nickel-and-dime

of little account

not worth mentioning

twopenny-halfpenny

not worth bothering about

of no consequence

of little importance

of little consequence

of no importance

of minor importance

without rhyme or reason

not worth speaking of

of little import

unconsequential

hardly worth mentioning

neither here nor there

of no great concern

of no significance

beside the point

undistinguished

good-for-nothing

indistinguishable

underprivileged

dissatisfactory

undistinguishable

underrepresented

lower in status

no great shakes

lacking foundation

not up to scratch

not up to snuff

too little too late

of little worth

lacking substance

beneath someone

under someone's heel

not very important

not so important

of less importance

of no earthly use

impossible to detect

hard to make out

without grounds

without foundation

counterproductive

in short supply

few and far between

thin on the ground

unrecognized^US

hard to come by

without success

in vicious circle

smallest amount of

unrecognised^UK

unsubstantiated

uninspirational

extremely small

invisible to the naked eye

barely perceptible

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Adjective

Adhering excessively to law

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