Extended Open Multilingual Wordnet 1.3

05749210-n 'making too fine distinctions of little importance';

English

hairsplitting ( ⊳ ) , word-splitting

Definitions

English: making too fine distinctions of little importance
― they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously
Japanese: たいして重要ではないことを細かく分けへだてすること
― 彼らは彼の細かいことへのこだわりをまじめに取り上げなかった

Relations

Hypernym:	differentiation
Semantic Field:	cognition_n

External Links

TempoWN: ◁ △ ▷ (Past: 0.000; Present: 0.000; Future: 0.030)

SentiWN: ▲ ▽ (+0.62 -0.00) MLSentiCon: ▲ ▼ (+0.25 -0.12)