Words and phrases that have a meaning related to nitpicking: (121 results)
Often used in the same context:
quibbling, whining, carping, griping, picayune, pedantic, caviling, hairsplitting, silly, minutia, hyperbole, bellyaching, sour grapes, fussing, overcritical, belaboring, pettifogging, yapping, critiquing, naysay, wordiness, faultfinding, irrelevancies, micromanagement, copout, quibblers, posturing, pettily, incoherency, tiresome, ridiculous, overreaching, grousing, sloppiness, overblowing, captious, bickering, maddening, goosey, micromanaging, overkill, pshaw, obsessing, complaining, hyperbolic, rehashing, tendentiousness, boneheadedness, nastiness, hackwork, trite, busywork, longwinded, bitching, harping, oversimplification, puffery, inconsequential, pigeonholing, ranting, trivial, sniping, subjectiveness, pedantry, boring, kvetching, irrelevant, stickler, mealymouthed, inconsistency, overemotional, nonsensical, irritating, persnickety, belittling, pernickety, showboating, peeved, obtuse, histrionics, bafflegab, tedious, blather, exaggeration, editorializing, unoriginality, fuddy, overdramatic, perfectionist, nuance, rigamarole, mumbo jumbo, gotcha, snide, grumble, overreacting, artlessness, blabber, semantics, unentertaining, fluff, whinge, niceties, quibble, quibbles, legerdemain, obfuscation, wranglings, clarification, juggling, nicety, sleight, wrangling, acrobatics, disputation, jargon, jumbo, muddle, muddles, perplexities
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Also try:critical
— Adjectives for nitpicking: such, mere, academic, semantic, legal, constant, theological, pedantic, financial, bureaucratic, legalistic, more...
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