Usually means: Excessively detailed beyond practical need.
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▸ adjective:  Excessively precise; more accurate than is needed.

Similar:
overaccurate, overexact, overexquisite, precise, overpunctilious, overcareful, superexacting, overparticular, overpicky, overjudicious, more...

Opposite:
imprecise, vague, approximate, rough, inexact

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Similar:
overaccurate, overexact, overexquisite, precise, overpunctilious, overcareful, superexacting, overparticular, overpicky, overjudicious, more...

Opposite:
imprecise, vague, approximate, rough, inexact



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