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Definition of overprecise in English: overpreciseadjectiveəʊvəprəˈsʌɪs Excessively accurate and careful about minor details. Example sentencesExamples - MacDonald later contended that some of his images had been overprecise, and considered a revised edition to tone them down.
- An everyday example of overprecise measurement can be seen at the gas station.
- They speak in an overprecise way with much pedantic insistence on letters not generally sounded, especially Hs.
- He blames Cornaro, the hygienist who advocated a specific regime of diet and lifestyle, for requirements such as special clothing or overprecise ordering of diet.
- The construction too is rendered rather basic and pure, with deceptively simple detailing that could even be called overprecise.
- However, this analysis is per vein and thus includes patients more than once, so that the results are overprecise.
- The church of S. Lorenzo held for him the authority of an example and it did not occur to him to ask overprecise questions about when it was built.
- A design should be reasonably simple as over-crowded features or overprecise arrangement of objects may lose spontaneity and dilute focus.
- Winnicott may well have intended to leave this concept without an overprecise definition.
- An overprecise or artificially rigid classification of qualifying circumstances is not what is called for under the Act.
Synonyms critical, censorious, carping, captious, cavilling, quibbling, niggling |