Synonyms for nit-picking
- dainty
- nice
- rough
- stickler
- tough
- careful
- choicy
- choosy
- critical
- discriminating
- exacting
- fastidious
- finical
- fussbudget
- fussy
- hard to please
- meticulous
- persnickety
- picky
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Antonyms for nit-picking
- easy
- common
- general
- imprecise
- indefinite
- indifferent
- inexact
- nonchalant
- ordinary
- undemanding
- undiscriminating
- unimportant
- usual
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WORD ORIGIN
"seek petty faults," also nit-pick, 1962, back-formation from earlier nitpicker. Related: Nitpicking; nitpicky.
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adjectivefault-finding, detracting- analytical
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- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
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