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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)


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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



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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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