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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Exacting
//ɪɡˈzæktɪŋ//
Synonyms for "exacting" (188 found)
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knottedknottylaboriousloudmeanmeticulousminutenarrowniceno picnicnot easyonerousoperoseoppressiveout of boundsout of sightoutrageousovercriticaloverpricedpainful
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particularperfectionistperfectionisticpersistentpertinaciouspickypreciseprecisianisticprecisionisticpreposterouspressingpriggishprohibitiveprudishpunctiliouspunctualpuristicpuritanicpuritanicalrefinedreligiousrigidrigorousroughruggedscrupulousscrutinizingselectivesensitiveset with thornssevereskyrocketingspartanspartanicspinyspiralingsqueamishsteepsternstraitstrenuousstringentsubtlesuperincumbenttaxingthornyticklishtighttoilsometoughtrickytryingtyrannicalunconscionableundueunfeelingunsparingunwarranteduphilluprootingurgentusuriousweightywicked
Adjective(7 words)
Adverb(1 words)
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2 entriesderived
4 entriesderived from
1 entriesform of
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8 entriessimilar
2 entriesTranslations
19 translations across 13 languages.
Belarusian
1 entries- патрабавальны adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
Bulgarian
2 entries- взискателен adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
- придирчив adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
Catalan
1 entries- exigent adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
Czech
1 entries- náročný adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
Dutch
1 entries- veeleisend adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
Esperanto
1 entries- postulema adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
Finnish
3 entries- tiukka adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
- vaatelias adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
- vaativa adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
French
1 entries- exigeant adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
German
3 entries- anspruchsvoll adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
- kleinlich adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
- wählerisch adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
Portuguese
1 entries- exigente adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
Russian
1 entries- тре́бовательный adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
Spanish
1 entries- exigente adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
Swedish
2 entries- fordrande adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
- krävande adj (making great demands; difficult to satisfy)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Khatia Buniatishvili's powerful hands rose and returned to the piano with exacting force as she played the last chord of a Rachmaninoff concerto.
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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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