fine-toothed comb

1. 1.

   a comb with teeth set close together

   Synonymsfine-tooth comb

   Broadercomb
2. 2.

   a method of examining in minute detail

   “he went over the contract with a fine-tooth comb looking for loopholes”

   Synonymsfine-tooth comb

   Broaderexamination

Questions about fine-toothed comb

What does fine-toothed comb mean?

fine-toothed comb means "a comb with teeth set close together". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for fine-toothed comb?

Close synonyms include fine-tooth comb, fine-tooth comb. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fine-toothed comb a common word?

fine-toothed comb is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.