Synonyms for Exacting

Synonyms for "exacting" (227 found)

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Closest matches (46)

abstruse accurate acquisitive arduous arousing astringent attentive austere authoritarian brutal burdensome captious caviling censorious challenge choicy choosy clamant clamorous close

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complex conscientious correct critical crying cutthroat delicate demanding detailed difficile difficult discriminating discriminative dour draining educible eductive elicitory

Adjective(5 words)

arduous choosiest coerce demand demanding

Noun(3 words)

careful decisiondetailed future plansenforcement of precise rule

Strong matches (68)

eradicative evocative exact exactive excessive exigent exorbitant exquisite extortionary extortionate extortive extractive extravagant fancy fastidious fine finical finicking finicky formal

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formidable fussy gouge gouging grasping grievous grimgrossly overpricedhairy hardhard earnedhard foughthard-earned hard-fought harsh herculean hypercritical immoderate imperative importunate inflationary inordinate insistent instant intricate jawbreaking knotted knotty laborious loud mean meticulous minute

Adjective(14 words)

exigent extort extract fastidious finickiest fussierhigh standardsimpose laboratory-grade laborious levy methodical meticulousmeticulous planner

Noun(1 words)

insisting

Related words (113)

Noun(5 words)

more methodicalneedlepoint nitpickingquality standardrigorous study

narrow niceno picnicnot easyoperose oppressiveout of boundsout of sightoutrageous overcritical overpriced painful particular perfectionist perfectionistic persistent pertinacious picky precise precisianistic

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Adjective(30 words)

onerous pedantic pickier preciseprecise measureprecise phrasingprocure require rigorousrigorous analysisrigorous approachrigorous argumentrigorous corroborationrigorous inferencerigorous logicrigorous reasoningrigorous sciencestern strenuous strict

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strict burial-action protocolstrictest stringent surgical taxingtextual precisionthorough coordinatoruncompromising unforgiving unrelenting

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

9 entries

acquire burden demand difficulty impose obtain quality require standard

More specific

16 entries

admission concessions confession costexact obedienceexact paymentexact tributefeeheavy workloadhigh costlevylong durationpedantry rigor strictness toll

Collocations

12 entries

exact obedienceexact paymentexact tollexact tributeexacted paymentexacting criteriaexacting demandexacting demandsexacting performanceexacting scheduleexacting scrutinyexacting standards

Inflections

4 entries

exacted exactsmore exactingmost exacting

Derivations

4 entries

exactingly exactingness exaction exactor

similar

1 entries

demanding

Sample sentences

10 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Printing firms around the world are generally willing to pay perhaps a 20-percent premium to buy a printing press from Germany, because the German presses are very solidly built and are machined to exacting tolerances.

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Khatia Buniatishvili's powerful hands rose and returned to the piano with exacting force as she played the last chord of a Rachmaninoff concerto.

Source: tatoeba (6836268)

Ziri is even more hellbent on exacting revenge.

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His exacting taste required no small degree of outward perfection.

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Exacting