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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

hairsplitting

/hair-split-ing/US // ˈhɛərˌsplɪt ɪŋ //UK // (ˈhɛəˌsplɪtɪŋ) //

分歧性,分裂,分歧,分裂的头发

Related Words

faultfinding找茬,寻错,找错,挑剔pettiness娇气,小气,娇弱,琐事sophistry歪理邪说,歪理,强词夺理,诡辩术carping争吵,捣乱,捣蛋,跳舞perfectionism完美主义,完善主义,完美主義,精益求精bickering争吵,吵吵闹闹,争吵声,争吵不休quibbling争论不休,争论不休的,争论,争吵caviling凹凸不平,穴居,龋齿,空洞

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by such distinctions: the hairsplitting arguments of a political debate.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounnitpicking
Synonyms
bickering争吵,吵吵闹闹,争吵声,争吵不休carping争吵,捣乱,捣蛋,跳舞faultfinding找茬,寻错,找错,挑剔perfectionism完美主义,完善主义,完美主義,精益求精pettiness娇气,小气,娇弱,琐事sophistry歪理邪说,歪理,强词夺理,诡辩术caviling凹凸不平,穴居,龋齿,空洞quibbling争论不休,争论不休的,争论,争吵

Examples

  • Secondly, you must not think too little of it, by regarding the matter as mere scholastic word-mongery and useless hairsplitting.

  • It was fine legal reasoning, not without some of that hairsplitting for which Jefferson reproached Randolph.

  • But, to avoid hairsplitting, what we call "modern" English literature may be said to date from about 1885.

  • Hairsplitting terms like this I do not often employ, but, blessings on the head of Cadmus!

  • The mass of the party, he said, did not trouble their heads about theories, but plodded along unmindful of hairsplitting.

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