- Types Of Speech
- You can use hairsplitting as a noun or as a adjective satellite in a sentence.
- About Hairsplitting
- A 3 syllables noun and 13 letters with the letters a, g, h, i, l, n, p, r, s, and t, 9 consonants, 4 vowels and 3 syllables with the middle letter l. Hairsplitting starts with and ends in a consonant with the starting letters h, ha, hai, hair, hairs, and the ending characters are g, ng, ing, ting, tting, . Hairsplitting is also a double consonant (tt) word. View the double consonant words list.
- Definition
- Making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn''t take his hairsplitting seriously"
- Compound Words
- A compound word, hairsplitting has more than one word within it. There's 2 words which are hair, and splitting.
- Pig Latin
- Hairsplitting in Pig Latin is said as "airsplittinghay or airsplittinghway".
- Unigram
- h | a | i | r | s | p | l | i | t | t | i | n | g
- Bigram
- ha | ai | ir | rs | sp | pl | li | it | tt | ti | in | ng
- Trigram
- hai | air | irs | rsp | spl | pli | lit | itt | tti | tin | ing
- Quadrigram
- hair | airs | irsp | rspl | spli | plit | litt | itti | ttin | ting
- Word Gram
- Noun Examples
- making too fine distinctions of little importance;
"they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"
- Adjective Satellite Examples
- developed in excessively fine detail;
"finespun distinctions"
Synonym | Definition |
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Ack Ack | |
Ack Ack Gun | |
Adverse Criticism | |
Allergic | |
Animadversion | harsh criticism or disapproval |
Annoying | the act of troubling or annoying someone |
Antiaircraft | artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes |
Antiaircraft Gun | |
Apostasy | the act of abandoning a party or cause |
Aspersion | the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare) |
View all cognitive synonyms for Hairsplitting
Anagram | Definition |
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Hairsplitting | making too fine distinctions of little importance "they didn''t take his hairsplitting seriously" |
View English words with the unique letters used in hairsplitting. Words With The Letters Aghilnprst
Word | Definition |
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Differentiation | the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function |
Distinction | a distinguishing difference "he learned the distinction between gold and lead" |
Hairsplitting Is In These Word Lists
- Starts With H
- Ends With G