English Explanatory Dictionary

hairsplitter

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A stickler person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).

Word forms

hairsplitter hairsplitters hair-splitter

Etymology

From hair + splitter.

Related words

hairsplitting split hairs
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on H Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary