Definition of overexact in English:
overexact
adjectiveəʊv(ə)rɪɡˈzaktˌōvəriɡˈzakt
Excessively accurate and careful about minor details.
you do not need to be overexact in calculating your submission date
Example sentencesExamples
- Perhaps these writers were unburdened by ''overexact'' technical knowledge.
- All over-exact people are unpleasant company.
- I am not very proud of this translation, for even in its vagueness it is overexact.
- It can be just as misleading to be overexact, by insisting on distinctions finer than the context makes necessary, as to be careless.
- Here the narrator creates a logical chain that is not only grammatically excessive but comically overexact.
Synonyms
critical, censorious, carping, captious, cavilling, quibbling, niggling