Synonyms for hair-splitting
- adjective
- noun
Most common
pedantic casuistic casuistical jesuitic pilpulic pilpulistic
All synonyms
Adjective
pedantic, tight-assed informal, tight-arsed UK, casuistic, casuistical, jesuitic, pilpulic, pilpulistic, jesuitical dated
Noun
quibbling, pedantry, hypercriticism, casuistry, hair-splittery informal, pilpul, casuistics
Definitions
- 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.
- 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.
Related words
- Other spellings
- hairsplitting
Forms
- Plural
- hair-splittings → quibblings, pedantries, hypercriticisms, casuistries…
Example sentences
- pedantic You pride yourself on being pedantic, don't you?
By length
- 6 letters
- pilpul
- 8 letters
- pedantic3, pedantry3, jesuitic, pilpulic
- 9 letters
- quibbling3, casuistry, casuistic
- 10 letters
- jesuitical, casuistics
- 11 letters
- casuistical, pilpulistic
- 14 letters
- hypercriticism
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (pedantic3 = 3 syllables).