adjective

• Excessively accurate and careful about minor details.

  ‘you do not need to be overexact in calculating your submission date’

  More example sentences

  • ‘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.’

  Synonyms

  critical, censorious, carping, captious, cavilling, quibbling, niggling