Synonyms for hair-splitting
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : hair-split-ing |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈhɛərˌsplɪt ɪŋ |
Top 10 synonyms for hair-splitting
Définition of hair-splitting
Origin :- "making over-nice distinctions," by 1739, from hair + verbal noun from split (v.). To split hairs "make over-fine distinctions" is first recorded 1650s, as to cut the hair. Hair also being 18c. slang for "female pudendum," hair-splitter was noted in 1811 as slang for "penis."
- As in hypercritical : adj captious
- There is my defence on Terminus, or better say on hair-splitting.
- Extract from : « Erasmus and the Age of Reformation » by Johan Huizinga
- It is a danger to which ingenious and hair-splitting writers are liable.
- Extract from : « Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather » by Charles W. Upham
- This is not hair-splitting in the opprobrious sense of that term.
- Extract from : « Essays In Pastoral Medicine » by Austin Malley
- I know your hair-splitting habit; I at once anticipate your reply.
- Extract from : « The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II.(of II) » by Charles James Lever
- But he disliked the corrupt method of his countrymen, who indulged in hair-splitting, casuistry, and subtleties.
- Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. V (of 6) » by Heinrich Graetz
- Moreover, this hair-splitting was considered sublimest piety, and superseded everything else.
- Extract from : « History of the Jews, Vol. V (of 6) » by Heinrich Graetz
- Plain and safe men never disparaged his arguments by calling them hair-splitting or metaphysical.
- Extract from : « The Brothers' War » by John Calvin Reed
- The man who goes to law surrenders his liberty of action and becomes the sport of chicaning lawyers and hair-splitting judges.
- Extract from : « Mr. Fortescue » by William Westall
- It will not be worth our while to wade through all the technical and hair-splitting discussions of these points.
- Extract from : « A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy » by Isaac Husik
- It is better, however, not to raise the question with beginners, since it seems to them like hair-splitting to no purpose.
- Extract from : « The Teaching of Geometry » by David Eugene Smith
Words or expressions associated with your search
- angel hair
- armchair
- armchair quarterback
- by a hair
- camp chair
- captain's chair
- chair
- chair car
- chair lift
- chaired
- chairing
- chairman
- chairperson
- chairwoman
- curly hair
- deck chair
- ear splitting
- ear-splitting
- ear-splittingly
- ear splittingly
- earsplitting
- easy chair
- elbow chair
- electric chair
- fair haired
- fair-haired
- fair-haired boy
- fair-haired boys
- fair-haireds
- fair haireds
- fairhaired
- fairhaireds
- false hair
- first chair
- gat hair
- gat in hair
- gat in one hair
- gat in one's hair
- gat in ones hair
- gat one hair
- gat one's hair
- gat ones hair
- get hair
- get in hair
- get in one's hair
- get in ones hair
- get one hair
- get ones hair
- get spliced
- gets hair
- gets in hair
- gets in one hair
- gets in one's hair
- gets in ones hair
- gets one hair
- gets one's hair
- gets ones hair
- getting hair
- getting in hair
- getting in one hair
- getting in one's hair
- getting one hair
- getting one's hair
- grab a chair
- hair
- hair clip
- hair-comb
- hair extension
- hair implant
- hair loss
- hair of the dog that bit one
- hair raising
- hair-raising
- hair's breadth
- hair's-breath
- hair salon
- hair salons
- hair shirt
- hair-splitter
- hair splitters
- hair-splitting
- hair stylist
- hair transplant
- hair-trigger
- hair weave
- hair weaving
- hairbreadth
- hairbreadth escape
- hairbrush
- haircombs
- haircut
- hairdo
- hairdresser
- hairdressing
- hairdressing salon
- hairiness
- hairless
- hairline
- hairpiece
- hairpin
- hairpin curve
- hairraising
- hairsbreadth
- hairsplitting
- hairstyle
- hairstylist
- hairtrigger
- hairy
- lawn chair
- let down hair
- let hair down
- let one hair down
- let one's hair down
- let ones hair down
- lets hair down
- lets one hair down
- lets one's hair down
- lets ones hair down
- letted hair down
- letted one hair down
- letted one's hair down
- letted ones hair down
- letting hair down
- letting one hair down
- letting one's hair down
- letting ones hair down
- lickety split
- made ones hair stand on end
- make hair stand end
- make hair stand on end
- make one's hair stand end
- make one's hair stand on end
- make ones hair stand end
- makes one hair stand on end
- making one hair stand end
- making one's hair stand end
- making ones hair stand end
- male pattern hair loss
- male pattern hair losses
- Morris chair
- not turn a hair
- overstuffed chair
- patio chair
- pushchair
- side-splitting
- splice
- splint
- splinter
- splinter group
- splintery
- split
- split personality
- split second
- take the chair
- taste hair
- wing chair
- yellow-haired
- yellow haireds
- yellow-haireds
- yellowhaired
- yellowhaireds
Most wanted synonyms
Based on : Thesaurus.com - Gutenberg.org - Dictionary.com - Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019