over-precise
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.12 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "The prose is restrained, almost over-precise in its concern to be clear at each moment; […]"
- "Or, as Kingsley Amis put it less delicately in his book The King’s English (1997), the world of grammar is divided into “berks and wankers” – berks being those who are outrageously slipshod about language, and wankers those who are (in our view) abhorrently over-precise."
- "For instance, the format of the painting in question signals such an aspiration: ‘100.1 × 99.9 cm’, the catalogue states, measurements with which Anton Henning both destroyed the perfection of the square and rejected the round length of one metre. Moreover, these over-precise specifications contrast absurdly with the extravagant manner of painting."
Inflected Forms
more over-precise (comparative)
most over-precise (superlative)