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
- hairsplitters
- hair-splitter
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pedant, splitter, nitpicker, precisian, hairpuller, neatnik.
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