Synonyms for nitpick
Definitions
- v. 1
To correct insignificant mistakes or find fault in unimportant details.
Someone will invariably nitpick about any spelling error posted to the forums.
Related words
- Word family
- nitpickery nit-picky
Forms
- Past participle
- nitpicked
e.g. nitpicked → quibbled, caviled, niggled, flyspecked…
Example sentences
- quibble This is no time to quibble over terminology.
- cavil He was known to cavil at most of Tom's proposals.
- niggle Mary would always niggle Tom over his lack of punctuation in text messages.
By length
- 5 letters
- cavil
- 6 letters
- niggle
- 7 letters
- quibble2
- 8 letters
- flyspeck
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (quibble2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- pinailler