0 giving too much attention to details that are not important, especially as a way of criticizing: --
If you spent less time nitpicking, you'd get more work done.
1 relating to the act of nitpicking or to a nitpicker (= someone who gives too much attention to details that are not important): --
Making maps is a very precise and nitpicking operation.
a nitpicking attitude
2 the tendency to look for slight mistakes or faults: --
This constant nitpicking is hard on your friends.
They are tired of what they regard as nitpicking complaints for minor violations.
One last nitpicking detail: this is a lengthy study and could have been shorter in certain places.
I make it a policy to avoid nitpicking arguments.
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
nitpicking