over-refine

1. 1.

   refine too much or with excess of subtlety

   “He is overrefining this matter”

   Synonymsoverrefine

   Broaderpolish

Questions about over-refine

What does over-refine mean?

over-refine means "refine too much or with excess of subtlety".

How many syllables are in over-refine?

over-refine has 4 syllables and divides as o-ver--re-fine under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for over-refine?

Close synonyms include overrefine. 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.