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nitpicked

nitpicked is the simple past and past participle of nitpick.

Meaning of nitpick

Verb

nitpick (third-person singular simple present nitpicks, present participle nitpicking, simple past and past participle nitpicked)

  1. (figuratively) To correct insignificant mistakes or find fault in unimportant details.
    • Someone will invariably nitpick about any spelling error posted to the forums.
    Synonyms:
    cavil, flyspeck
  2. (archaic, literal) To pick nits (lice eggs) from someone’s hair.
  3. (archaic, literal) I nitpicked his hair.

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Questions about nitpicked

What is nitpicked the simple past and past participle of?
Nitpicked is the simple past and past participle of nitpick.

Words near nitpicked in the dictionary

  1. nitisol
  2. nitisols
  3. niton
  4. Niton and Whitwell
  5. nitpick
  6. nitpicked
  7. nitpicker
  8. nitpickers
  9. nitpickery
  10. nitpickety
  11. nitpickier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nitpicked (page history and authors); nitpick (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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