Exacting

/ɪɡˈzæktɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Making great demands; difficult to satisfy..

Definitions by Sense

1. Making great demands; difficult to satisfy.
2. Of an action, task, etc., requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
3. Of a person or organization, characterized by exaction.
4. present participle and gerund of exact

Example Sentences

His exacting taste required no small degree of outward perfection.

[H]e burst into apologies which would have satisfied a more exacting man than I am.

[Canadian Prime Minister] Mr. [Mark] Carney was the exacting governor of the Bank of Canada during the 2008 financial crisis, and the levelheaded governor of the Bank of England during Brexit.

Wolf's work, which, though not very exacting, had to be done single-handed, kept him to his post.

Every photographer of experience has his own theories and methods of working, but for the last 14 years I have used a Leica exclusively, and have found it best adapted to the somewhat exacting demands of railway photography, which is by no means an easy branch of the art.

Even if a GDF receives its first deposit in the 2040s, the waste has to be delivered and put away with such exacting caution that it can be filled and closed only by the middle of the 22nd century.

"He is a hard, exacting, money-loving man," was my remark.

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• more exacting
• most exacting

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