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View synonyms for nitpick

nitpick

or nit-pick

[ nit-pik ]

verb (used without object)

  1. to be excessively concerned with or critical of inconsequential details.


verb (used with object)

  1. to criticize by focusing on inconsequential details.

noun

  1. a carping, petty criticism.

adjective

  1. Also nit·pick·y. of, relating to, or characteristic of a person who nitpicks:

    a nitpick review of the miniseries.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of nitpick1

First recorded in 1965–70; nit 1 + pick 1

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Example Sentences

Still, this is an immensely powerful computer, and these concerns feel like nitpicks compared to the advantages it offers.

That might seem like nitpicking, but differences in interpretation depend on this kind of detail.

I have invented a voice that will nitpick this list even further!

This process can include days, weeks, months of nitpicking over single words in titles and headers.

Of course, there’s room to nitpick on the terms of Bertans’s five-year, $80 million contract.

People can nitpick ... but we were going for something a bit more shapeless and ethereal than the usual biopic.

The identical twins who sued Zuckerberg critique and nitpick The Social Network.

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