hair-splitting

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of considering or arguing about exceedingly small differences, fine details, and/or edge cases of no seeming importance, worrying about minutiae. countable,derogatory,idiomatic,uncountable
    — Regardless of the ultimate judgment and any hair splitting, the CIA seemed to many Americans to have regressed to and even surpassed its criminal-like behavior during the pre-Church Committee hearings era.
形容词 adj.
  1. Of or characterized by hair-splitting, seeking or having exceedingly small differences, fine details, and/or edge cases of no seeming importance, concerning or concerned with minutiae. derogatory,idiomatic
    — 2006, Ian Aitken, in The Guardian, Richard Clements Obituary Dick's Tribune poked endless fun at the hair-splitting sectarianism of the various Trotskyist groups jostling on the fringes of the Labour party at that time.

词形变化

hair-splittings plural hair splitting alternative hairsplitting alternative more hair-splitting comparative most hair-splitting superlative hair splitting alternative hairsplitting alternative

词汇关系

近义词
quibbling

词源

词源 1
From splitting hairs, q.v.
词源 2
From splitting hairs, q.v.
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