About The Word Exacting
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Exacting
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What's The Definition Of Exacting?
[adj] requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"
[adj] severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards" [adj] (microbiology) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" Synonyms | Synonyms for Exacting: demanding | exigent | fastidious | stern | strict Related Terms | Find terms related to Exacting: abstruse | accurate | arduous | arousing | astringent | attentive | austere | authoritarian | brutal | burdensome | censorious | choicy | choosy | clamant | clamorous | close | complex | conscientious | correct | critical | crying | cutthroat | delicate | demanding | detailed | difficile | difficult | discriminating | discriminative | dour | draining | educible | eductive | elicitory | eradicative | evocative | exact | exactive | excessive | exigent | exorbitant | exquisite | extortionary | extortionate | extortive | extractive | extravagant | fancy | fastidious | fine | finical | finicking | finicky | formidable | fussy | gouging | grasping | grievous | grim | grossly overpriced | hairy | hard | hard-earned | hard-fought | harsh | Herculean | hypercritical | immoderate | imperative | importunate | inflationary | inordinate | insistent | instant | intricate | jawbreaking | knotted | knotty | laborious | loud | mean | meticulous | minute | narrow | nice | no picnic | not easy | operose | oppressive | out of bounds | out of sight | outrageous | overpriced | particular | perfectionistic | persistent | pertinacious | picky | precise | precisianistic | precisionistic | preposterous | pressing | priggish | prohibitive | prudish | punctilious | punctual | puristic | puritanic | refined | religious | rigid | rigorous | rough | rugged | scrupulous | scrutinizing | selective | sensitive | set with thorns | severe | skyrocketing | Spartan | Spartanic | spiny | spiraling | steep | stern | strenuous | strict | stringent | subtle | taxing | thorny | ticklish | toilsome | tough | tricky | trying | tyrannical | unconscionable | undue | unreasonable | unsparing | unwarranted | uphill | uprooting | urgent | usurious | weighty | wicked See Also | Exacting In Webster's Dictionary \Ex*act"ing\, a.
Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or
requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh;
severe. ``A temper so exacting.'' --T. Arnold --
{Ex*act"ing*ly}, adv. -- {Ex*act"ing*ness}, n.
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