hair-splittingly
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From the gerund form of split hairs.
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file)
Adverb
[edit]hair-splittingly (comparative more hair-splittingly, superlative most hair-splittingly)
- (idiomatic) With exceedingly small differences that are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people.
- Nobody expected the vote to be so hair-splittingly close.