adj
Meaning 1
Making great demands; difficult to satisfy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
exacting
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ɪɡˈzæktɪŋ/
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rhymes with -æktɪŋ
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adj
Meaning 2
Of an action, task, etc., requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
adj
Meaning 3
Of a person or organization, characterized by exaction.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 4
present participle and gerund of exact
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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adjective
Meaning 5
having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- fastidious microorganisms
- certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: fastidious
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 6
requiring precise accuracy
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an exacting job
- became more exigent over his pronunciation
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: exigent
Antonyms: none provided
adjective satellite
Meaning 7
severe and unremitting in making demands
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- an exacting instructor
- a stern disciplinarian
- strict standards
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: stern, strict
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
From exact + -ing.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Belarusian: патрабавальны (patrabavalʹny) — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Bulgarian: взискателен (vziskatelen) — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Bulgarian: придирчив (pridirčiv) — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Catalan: exigent — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Czech: náročný — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Dutch: veeleisend — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Esperanto: postulema — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Finnish: tiukka — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Finnish: vaativa — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Finnish: vaatelias — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- French: exigeant — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- German: anspruchsvoll — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- German: wählerisch — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- German: kleinlich — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Portuguese: exigente — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Russian: тре́бовательный (trébovatelʹnyj) — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Spanish: exigente — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Swedish: krävande — making great demands; difficult to satisfy
- Swedish: fordrande — making great demands; difficult to satisfy