to be overmeticulous
1overmeticulous — index particular (exacting) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …
2particular — par·tic·u·lar adj in the civil law of Louisiana: of or relating to a designated property or to the inheritance of it compare universal Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
3anankastic — an·an·kas·tic or an·an·cas·tic .an (.)an kas tik n of, relating to, or arising from compulsion esp. in an obsessive or compulsive neurosis <an anankastic reaction> * * * adj. describing a collection of longstanding personality traits,… …
4hairsplitting — 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,… …
5hypercritical — Synonyms and related words: captious, carping, caviling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, faultfinding, hairsplitting, hypersensitive, morbidly sensitive, nagging, niggling, overconscientious, overcritical, overfastidious, overmeticulous,… …
6hypersensitive — Synonyms and related words: allergic, anaphylactic, delicate, empathetic, empathic, goosy, hairsplitting, high strung, hypercritical, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, irritable, itchy, miffy, morbidly sensitive, nervous, overconscientious,… …
7overconscientious — Synonyms and related words: careful, conscientious, fastidious, hairsplitting, hypercritical, hypersensitive, meticulous, morbidly sensitive, nice, overcritical, overfastidious, overmeticulous, overnice, overparticular, overprecise, overrefined,… …
8overcritical — Synonyms and related words: captious, carping, caviling, cavilling, censorious, critic, critical, cynical, demanding, difficult, exacting, fastidious, faultfinding, finicky, fussy, hair splitting, hairsplitting, harsh, hypercritical,… …
9overnice — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, artificial, chichi, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, formalistic, goody good good, goody goody, hairsplitting, hypercritical,… …
10overrefined — Synonyms and related words: Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, allergic, anaphylactic, apparently sound, artificial, casuistic, chichi, colorable, deceptive, delicate, disingenuous, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, empathetic,… …
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