| ADJECTIVE | all | demanding | requiring more than usually expected or thought due |
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| Sounds | dihmae'ndihng | |
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| Rhymes | abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng... | |
| Meaning | requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill. | |
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| Examples |
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| Narrower | exigent, exacting | requiring precise accuracy |
| hard-to-please, hard to please | (of persons) "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster" | |
| needy | demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree | |
| rigorous, stringent, tight | demanding strict / strict attention to rules and procedures | |
| stern, strict, exacting | severe and unremitting in making demands | |
| See also | difficult, hard | not easy |
| Opposite | undemanding | requiring little if any patience or effort or skill |
| Spanish | exigente | |
| Catalan | exigent | |
| Adverbs | demandingly | in a demanding manner |
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