Summary
English to German: more detail...
- hairsplitting:
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Wiktionary:
- hair-splitting → Haarspalterei
- hair-splitting → Erbsenzählerei, Haarspalterei, Spitzfindigkeit, Wortklauberei
English
Detailed Translations for hair-splitting from English to German
hairsplitting:
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the hairsplitting (acting difficult; quibbling)
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the hairsplitting (niggling; nitpicking)
die Haarspalterei -
the hairsplitting (quibbling over words)
die Wortklauberei
Translation Matrix for hairsplitting:
| Noun | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| Haarspalterei | acting difficult; hairsplitting; niggling; nitpicking; quibbling | arguing; quibbling; splitting hairs |
| Umstände machen | acting difficult; hairsplitting; quibbling | |
| Wortklauberei | hairsplitting; quibbling over words | |
| - | word-splitting | |
| Adjective | Related Translations | Other Translations |
| - | finespun |
Synonyms for "hairsplitting":
Related Definitions for "hairsplitting":
Wiktionary Translations for hair-splitting:
hair-splitting
Cross Translation:
noun
hair-splitting
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the act of finding exceedingly small differences which are neither important nor prominent
- hair-splitting → Haarspalterei
Cross Translation:
| From | To | Via |
|---|---|---|
| • hair-splitting | → Erbsenzählerei; Haarspalterei; Spitzfindigkeit; Wortklauberei | ↔ enculage de mouches — (vulgaire) (figuré) péjoratif|fr arguties pour des vétilles, argumentation oiseuse, absconse et parfois pédante, sur des détails. |
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