Hair-splittingly

adv

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Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    With exceedingly small differences that are probably neither important nor noticeable to most people. idiomatic

    "Nobody expected the vote to be so hair-splittingly close."

Example

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"Nobody expected the vote to be so hair-splittingly close."

Etymology

From the gerund form of split hairs.

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