Definition of overexact in English:
overexact
adjective
Excessively accurate and careful about minor details.
‘you do not need to be overexact in calculating your submission date’- ‘All over-exact people are unpleasant company.’
- ‘It can be just as misleading to be overexact, by insisting on distinctions finer than the context makes necessary, as to be careless.’
- ‘Here the narrator creates a logical chain that is not only grammatically excessive but comically overexact.’
- ‘Perhaps these writers were unburdened by ''overexact'' technical knowledge.’
- ‘I am not very proud of this translation, for even in its vagueness it is overexact.’
critical, censorious, carping, captious, cavilling, quibbling, niggling
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