adjective

• Making excessively fine distinctions.

  ‘an oversubtle argument’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Does it really count as ‘oversubtle’ to see that Cebes is saying that he doesn't trust the arguments?’
  • ‘A Franciscan of Tournai reported that, though untrained in theology, the Beguines rejoiced in new and oversubtle ideas.’

  Synonyms

  scholarly, learned, academic, erudite, donnish