The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 7 letter word PARTING which also is the latest solution we found used in Newsday in 2006.
Splitting hairs crossword clue answers
Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.
| Answer | Likelyness | Letters |
|---|---|---|
| PARTING | 100 % | 7 |
Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Splitting hairs
These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.- split hairs
- hairsplitting
- nitpicking
- distinctions
- semantics
- distinction
- distinguishing
- nitpicky
- contradistinction
- minutiae
- pedantic
- nitpick
Crossword Answer definitions
PARTING verb- To leave the company of.
- To cut hair with a parting; shed.
- To divide in two.
- To be divided in two or separated; shed.
- To divide up; to share.
- To have a part or share; to partake.
- To separate or disunite; to remove from contact or contiguity; to sunder.
- To hold apart; to stand or intervene between.
- To separate by a process of extraction, elimination, or secretion.
- To leave; to quit.
- To leave (an IRC channel).
- The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
- A farewell, the act of departing politely.
- The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions; part (US)
- (founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section.
- The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
- A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
- The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
- Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.
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