ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hairsplitter

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Hairsplitter is a noun meaning A stickler person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).

Meaning

A stickler person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pedant, splitter, nitpicker, precisian, hairpuller, neatnik.

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