hair-splittingly

English

Etymology

From the gerund form of split hairs.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

hair-splittingly (comparative more hair-splittingly, superlative most hair-splittingly)

1. (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.