hair-splittingly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the gerund form of split hairs.

Pronunciation[edit]

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Adverb[edit]

hair-splittingly (comparative more hair-splittingly, superlative most hair-splittingly)

  1. (idiomatic) With exceedingly small differences that are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people.
    Nobody expected the vote to be so hair-splittingly close.
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