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)
- (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.