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Main Entry: hairsplitting
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: nitpicking

Synonyms:

bickering, carping, caviling, faultfinding, perfectionism, pettiness, quibbling, sophistry
Main Entry: critical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: fault-finding, detracting

Synonyms:

analytical, belittling, biting, calumniatory, captious, carping, caviling, cavillous, censorious, censuring, choleric, condemning, critic, cutting, cynical, demanding, demeaning, derogatory, diagnostic, disapproving, discerning, discriminating, disparaging, exacting, exceptive, finicky, fussy, hairsplitting, humbling, hypercritical, lowering, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, particular, penetrating, reproachful, sarcastic, satirical, scolding, severe, sharp, trenchant, withering

Antonyms:

complimentary, laudatory, praising
Main Entry: fault-finding
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: critical

Synonyms:

captious, carping, fussy, hairsplitting, hard to please, hypercritical, nagging, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, pettifogging, quibbling
Main Entry: fine
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: discriminating, exact

Synonyms:

abstruse, acute, clear, critical, cryptic, delicate, distinct, enigmatic, esoteric, fastidious, fine-spun, hairline, hairsplitting, intelligent, keen, minute, nice, obscure, petty, precise, pure, quick, recondite, refined, sensitive, sharp, sterling, strict, subtle, tasteful, tenuous, trifling, unadulterated, unpolluted

Antonyms:

awkward, crude, uncouth, undiscriminating, unrefined
Main Entry: hypercritical
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: captious

Synonyms:

carping, caviling, censorious, critical, demanding, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hair-splitting, hard to please, niggling, nit-picking, overcritical, persnickety
Main Entry: nice
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: precise, neat, refined

Synonyms:

accurate, becoming, befitting, careful, choosy, conforming, correct, critical, cultured, dainty, decent, delicate, discerning, discriminating, distinguishing, exact, exacting, fastidious, fine, finespun, finical, finicking, finicky*, fussy*, genteel, hairsplitting, meticulous, minute, particular, persnickety*, picky*, proper, respectable, right, rigorous, scrupulous, seemly, squeamish, strict, subtle, tidy, trim, trivial*, virtuous, well-bred

Antonyms:

disordered, imprecise, unmannerly, unrefined
Main Entry: pedantic
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bookish, precise

Synonyms:

abstruse, academic, arid, didactic, doctrinaire, donnish, dry, dull, egotistic, erudite, formal, fussy, hairsplitting, learned, nit-picking, ostentatious, overnice, particular, pedagogic, pompous, priggish, punctilious, scholastic, schoolish, sententious, stilted

Antonyms:

imprecise, informal
Main Entry: subtle
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: nice, quiet, delicate

Synonyms:

attenuate, attenuated, deep, discriminating, ethereal, exquisite, faint, fine, finespun, hairline, hairsplitting, illusive, implied, inconspicuous, indirect, indistinct, inferred, ingenious, insinuated, mental, penetrating, profound, refined, slight, sophisticated, suggestive, tenuous, thin, understated

Antonyms:

hard, harsh, noisy, unsubtle
Main Entry: quibbling
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: carping

Synonyms:

complaining, fault-finding, griping, hairsplitting, niggling, nit-picking
Main Entry: nitpicking
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: niggling about details

Synonyms:

captious, hairsplitting
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