'Exacting' definitions:
Definition of 'exacting'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements" [syn: fastidious, exacting] [ant: unfastidious]
adjective
Severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards" [syn: stern, strict, exacting]
adjective
Requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation" [syn: exigent, exacting]
Definition of 'Exacting'
From: GCIDE
- Exact \Ex*act"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exacting.] [From L. exactus, p. p. of exigere; or fr. LL. exactare: cf. OF. exacter. See Exact, a.] To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one. [1913 Webster]
- He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. --Luke. iii. 13. [1913 Webster]
- Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- My designs Exact me in another place. --Massinger. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Exacting'
From: GCIDE
- Exacting \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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'exacting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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