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hairsplitters

hairsplitters is the plural of hairsplitter.

Meaning of hairsplitter

Noun

hairsplitter (plural hairsplitters)

  1. A stickler person who makes extremely, possibly excessively, fine distinctions (who would separate something as fine as a hair into two pieces and distinguish them).

Questions about hairsplitters

What is hairsplitters the plural of?
Hairsplitters is the plural of hairsplitter.

Words near hairsplitters in the dictionary

  1. hairslides
  2. hairsnake
  3. hairsplit
  4. hairsplits
  5. hairsplitter
  6. hairsplitters
  7. hairsplitting
  8. hairsplittings
  9. hairspray
  10. hairsprayed
  11. hairspraying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hairsplitters (page history and authors); hairsplitter (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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