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1. a утончённый, изящный, изысканный; благородныйrefined manners — благовоспитанность, изысканное обращение
2. a спец. очищенный, рафинированный3. a уточнённый, усовершенствованный, улучшенныйСинонимический ряд:1. fine (adj.) delicate; fine; finespun; hairline; hairsplitting; nice; subtle2. genteel (adj.) civilised; civilized; courteous; courtly; cultivated; cultured; distingue; elegant; enlightened; genteel; polished; polite; urbane; well-bred3. purified (adj.) clarified; distilled; elutriated; expurgated; purified; strained4. cleaned (verb) clarified; cleaned; cleansed; purified5. polished (verb) perfected; polished; refined; rounded; sleeked; slicked; smoothedАнтонимический ряд:discourteous; general; impolite; inelegant; inexact; obvious; polluted; unrefined -
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1. a тонкий, нежный2. a острый, проницательный3. a трудно уловимый, едва различимый4. a таинственный5. a искусный, умелый, ловкий6. a утончённый, изысканный7. a хитрый, коварный; изворотливый8. a действующий исподтишка, незаметно9. a ненасыщенный; негустойСинонимический ряд:1. abstruse (adj.) abstruse; complex; deceptive; elusive; implied; indirect; inferred; insinuated; suggestive2. discriminating (adj.) apt; astute; discriminating; keen; perspicacious; shrewd; skillful; sophisticated3. faint (adj.) faint; filmy; intricate; slender; slight; understated4. fine (adj.) delicate; fine; finespun; hairline; hairsplitting; nice; refined5. logical (adj.) analytic; analytical; logical; ratiocinative6. sly (adj.) artful; crafty; cunning; deep; foxy; full of artifice; guileful; insidious; sly; subdolous; tricky; vulpine; wily7. thin (adj.) attenuate; attenuated; rare; rarefied; subtile; tenuous; thinАнтонимический ряд:blatant; guileless; obvious; undiscerning -
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106 woordenzifterij
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107 პედანტიზმი
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108 წვრილმანი
ahairsplitting, meticulous, minutiae, peddling, pettifogging, petty, piddling, potty, straw, trifle, trifling, trivia -
109 haarspalterisch
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110 die Haarspalterei
- {a distinction without difference; hairsplitting} = das ist Haarspalterei {that's splitting hairs}+ = keine Haarspalterei! {don't split hairs!}+
См. также в других словарях:
Hairsplitting — Hair split ting ( t[i^]ng), a. Making excessively fine or trivial distinctions in reasoning; overly subtle. n. The act or practice of making trivial distinctions. [1913 Webster] The ancient hairsplitting technicalities of special pleading.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
hairsplitting — index particular (exacting) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
hairsplitting — [n] nitpicking bickering, carping, caviling, faultfinding, perfectionism, pettiness, quibbling, sophistry; concepts 671,706 … New thesaurus
hairsplitting — [her′split΄iŋ] adj., n. making overnice or petty distinctions; quibbling hairsplitter n … English World dictionary
hairsplitting — hairsplitter, n. /hair split ing/, n. 1. the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions. adj. 2. characterized by such distinctions: the hairsplitting arguments of a political debate. [1820 30; HAIR + SPLITTING] Syn. 2. quibbling, niggling,… … Universalium
hairsplitting — hair•split•ting [[t]ˈhɛərˌsplɪt ɪŋ[/t]] n. 1) cvb the making of unnecessarily fine distinctions 2) cvb characterized by such distinctions; quibbling: hairsplitting arguments[/ex] • Etymology: 1820–30 hair′split ter, n … From formal English to slang
hairsplitting — I noun making too fine distinctions of little importance they didn t take his hairsplitting seriously • Syn: ↑word splitting • Hypernyms: ↑differentiation, ↑distinction II adjective … Useful english dictionary
hairsplitting — adjective or noun see hairsplitter … New Collegiate Dictionary
hairsplitting — noun The act of considering or arguing about fine details, or worrying about minutiae … Wiktionary
hairsplitting — Synonyms and related words: adverse criticism, animadversion, aspersion, bad notices, bad press, bickering, boggling, captious, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, chicane, chicanery, choplogic, contradistinction, critical,… … Moby Thesaurus
hairsplitting — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. unimportant, minute, subtle; see trivial , irrelevant , unimportant . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. nitpicking, pettiness, quibbling, caviling, fault finding … English dictionary for students