over-precise

comparative more over-precise · superlative most over-precise

1. alternativeAlternative form of overprecise.

   The prose is restrained, almost over-precise in its concern to be clear at each moment; […]

   1989, N. H. Reeve, “Introduction”, in The Novels of Rex Warner: An Introduction, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 14

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   Or, as Kingsley Amis put it less delicately in his book The King’s English (1997), the world of grammar is divided into “berks and wankers” – berks being those who are outrageously slipshod about language, and wankers those who are (in our view) abhorrently over-precise.

   2003 November 6, Lynne Truss, “Introduction – The Seventh Sense”, in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation, London: Profile Books Ltd, →ISBN, page 30

   For instance, the format of the painting in question signals such an aspiration: ‘100.1 × 99.9 cm’, the catalogue states, measurements with which Anton Henning both destroyed the perfection of the square and rejected the round length of one metre. Moreover, these over-precise specifications contrast absurdly with the extravagant manner of painting.

   2010, Wolfgang Ullrich, “Anton Henning and the Mastery of ‘Bad Painting’”, in Anton Henning: MASTERdote / AntiSINGER, London: Haunch of Venison, →ISBN, page 5