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split hairs
| Main Entry: |
split hairs
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make an extremely fine distinction |
| Synonyms: | cavil, chop logic, make a fine distinction, nitpick, pick nits, quibble, refine a distinction, sharpen a distinction, subtilize |
| Main Entry: | discriminate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | differentiate, distinguish |
| Synonyms: | assess, collate, compare, contradistinguish, contrast, difference, discern, discrepate, evaluate, extricate, judge, know, know what's what, make out, note, perceive, remark, segregate, separate, sever, severalize, sift, specify, split hairs, tell apart, tell the difference |
| Antonyms: | confuse, mix up |
| Main Entry: | quibble |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | disagree over minor issues |
| Synonyms: | altercate, argue over, argufy, avoid, bicker, blow hot and cold, carp, catch at straws, cavil, chicane, criticize, dispute, equivocate, evade, fence, flip-flop, hassle, have at it, hem and haw, hypercriticize, make a big thing about, nit-pick, paralogize, pettifog, pretend, prevaricate, put up an argument, set to, shift, spar, split hairs, squabble, talk back, waffle, wrangle |
| Antonyms: | agree, approve, concur |
| Main Entry: | pettifog |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | quibble |
| Synonyms: | altercate, argue over, argufy, avoid, bicker, blow hot and cold, carp, catch at straws, cavil, chicane, criticize, dispute, equivocate, evade, fence, flip-flop, hassle, have at it, hem and haw, hypercriticize, make a big thing about, niggle, nit-pick, nitpick, paralogize, pick to pieces, pretend, prevaricate, put up an argument, set to, shift, spar, split hairs, squabble, talk back, waffle, wrangle |
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