overprecise

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Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
21
Letters
11

Definition of overprecise

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Excessively precise; more accurate than is needed.
    “Lady Lyttelton is again the chief authority for this expression in its Glynnese use : and her application of it is a constant source of sonorous laughter on the part of the reverend person so often alluded to in this work. The Author conceives it is nothing but an arbitrary substitution of the word 'martyr' for 'slave' in colloquial English: and signifies that overprecise and punctilious attention to anything which is so often called 'being a slave to it'.”
    “His dark gray eyes beamed with benevolence ; and he used to say himself, “Any one can see by the look of me that I am a good-natured sort of fellow.”’ The impression given by his countenance and bearing was that of an earnest, dignified man, perhaps a little overprecise. Though fond of a joke, he never indulged in immoderate laughter.”

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Etymology

From over- + precise.

Anagrams of overprecise

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