Exacting

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Making severe demands; rigorous: an exacting instructor.
  • adj. Requiring great care, effort, or attention: an exacting task. See Synonyms at burdensome.
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  • adj. Making excessive demands; hard to satisfy.
  • adj. Requiring precise accuracy
  • v. Present participle of exact.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Given to or characterized by exaction; severe in requirement or requisition; exigent in action or procedure: as, an exacting master; an exacting inquiry.
  • Attended by exaction; requiring close attention or application; arduous; laborious; absorbing: as, an exacting office or employment; exacting duties; exacting demands upon one's time.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. requiring precise accuracy
  • adj. severe and unremitting in making demands
  • adj. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
    • Equivalent
    demanding   
    Cross Reference
    critical    difficulty   
    Form
    exactingly    exactingness   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    harsh    severe    extortionary    extortive    exactive   
    Verb Stem
    exact   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    acting    attracting    counteracting    detracting    distracting   
     
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