Tweedledee
- adjective
- Archaic
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nimio
- Let's not get lost in Tweedledee details and focus on the main issue.
Examples
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His arguments were so Tweedledee that they hardly mattered.
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Her Tweedledee concerns about the font size delayed the entire project.
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The committee wasted hours on Tweedledee arguments instead of solving the real problem.
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Don't get caught up in such Tweedledee details!
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The team spent too much time discussing Tweedledee issues rather than making progress on the project.
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Focusing on Tweedledee aspects of the plan only distracted us from the larger goals we were trying to achieve.
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Her Tweedledee disagreements over minor details made it difficult to reach a consensus.
Synonyms
97
3.9
Being mean about small, unimportant things
24
3.9
Easily annoyed and hard to please about small things
4
7.9
Paying too much attention to small unimportant details and criticizing them
4
9.8
Being very picky about small details
1
9.0
Having many small annoying details that make things difficult
Giving too much attention to small, unimportant details
Being very careful about small details in a way that annoys others
Paying too much attention to small unimportant details that annoy other people
Paying too much attention to small, unimportant details
Antonyms
Compounds
Two people who look and behave almost the same and are hard to tell apart
How Trivial
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tweedledee comes from an old English nursery rhyme and the silly sound tweedle and the ending -dee, so the name feels like a small, light noise. A helpful way to remember it is that Tweedledee means 'trivial' or petty fussing over unimportant details.