Overspecific

Quick meaning: Overspecific is an adjective meaning Too specific; with too much detail.

Meaning

Too specific; with too much detail.

Example Sentences

However, it is important to understand that overgeneral and overspecific rules can emerge and play a role in solving both clean and noisy problems.

Rorschach confabulations can be excessively broad or narrow in scope. They might involve the unfolding of a dramatic elaboration or a lengthy tangential or circumstantial commentary, on the one hand; or they may be crisply overspecific, on the other.

Moreover, the course in technical writing cannot be called narrow and overspecific inasmuch as the elements composing it remain constant, and the training which it gives the students is of permanent value regardless of any advance in engineering science.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overdetailed, overdescriptive, overexplicit, overextensive, overtechnical, overprecise.

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