hair-splittingly
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.