'Demanding' definitions:
Definition of 'demanding'
From: WordNet
adjective
Requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding" [ant: undemanding]
Definition of 'Demanding'
From: GCIDE
- Demand \De*mand"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Demanded; p. pr. & vb. n. Demanding.] [F. demander, LL. demandare to demand, summon, send word, fr. L. demandare to give in charge, intrust; de- + mandare to commit to one's charge, commission, order, command. Cf. Mandate, Commend.]
- 1. To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily; as, to demand a debt; to demand obedience. [1913 Webster]
- This, in our foresaid holy father's name, Pope Innocent, I do demand of thee. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To inquire authoritatively or earnestly; to ask, esp. in a peremptory manner; to question. [1913 Webster]
- I did demand what news from Shrewsbury. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To require as necessary or useful; to be in urgent need of; hence, to call for; as, the case demands care. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Law) To call into court; to summon. --Burrill. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'demanding'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstruse,
- accurate,
- arduous,
- astringent,
- attentive,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- cajoling,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- close,
- coaxing,
- complex,
- conscientious,
- correct,
- critical,
- crying,
- delicate,
- detailed,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- dour,
- draining,
- dunning,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- exquisite,
- extortionate,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- formidable,
- fussy,
- grasping,
- grievous,
- grim,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- harsh,
- Herculean,
- imperative,
- importunate,
- insistent,
- instant,
- intricate,
- jawbreaking,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- laborious,
- loud,
- mean,
- meticulous,
- minute,
- nagging,
- narrow,
- nice,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- particular,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- pestering,
- plaguing,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pressing,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- refined,
- religious,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- spiny,
- steep,
- stern,
- strenuous,
- strict,
- stringent,
- subtle,
- taxing,
- teasing,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- tricky,
- trying,
- unsparing,
- uphill,
- urgent,
- weighty,
- wheedling,
- wicked