overrefined
adj.
excessively refined; excessively improved; excessively fine, excessively finespun
overrefine
v.
overly refine; be excessively or undesirably fastidious about small refinements (especially regarding subtle points of an argument)
overrefined
Adjective
1. excessively delicate or refined
(synonym) superfine
(similar) refined
overrefine
Verb
1. refine too much or with excess of subtlety; "He is overrefining this matter"
(synonym) over-refine
(hypernym) polish, refine, fine-tune, down
(derivation) distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twisting
overrefined
Synonyms and related words:
Gongoresque, Gongoristic, Marinistic, affected, allergic, anaphylactic, apparently sound, artificial, casuistic, chichi, colorable, deceptive, delicate, disingenuous, elaborate, elaborated, elegant, empathetic, empathic, empty, euphemistic, euphuistic, exquisite, fallacious, formalistic, goody good-good, goody-goody, goosy, hairsplitting, hollow, hypercritical, hyperelegant, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, illusive, insincere, irritable, itchy, jesuitic, la-di-da, mannered, mincing, morbidly sensitive, namby-pamby, nervous, overconscientious, overcritical, overelaborate, overelegant, overfastidious, overmeticulous, overnice, overparticular, overprecise, overscrupulous, oversensible, oversensitive, oversqueamish, oversubtle, overtender, passible, pedantic, philosophistic, plausible, precieuse, precieux, precious, precisian, precisianistic, precisionistic, pretentious, prickly, puristic, refined, responsive, sensitive, simpering, skittish, sophistic, sophistical, specious, studied, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, touchy, ultracritical, unnatural
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.
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