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demandingadjective requiring much time, effort, or careful attentionthe demanding assignment kept them working all night long arduous, burdensome, challenging, exacting, grueling(or gruelling), killing, laborious, onerous, persnickety, taxing, toilsome difficult, formidable, hard, herculean, rough, rugged, stiff, strenuous, testing, toughoppressive, tryingrigid, rigorous, severe, stern, strict, stringent light, nondemanding, unchallenging, undemanding easy, effortless, facile, simple, smooth hard to pleasewill play before a demanding audience of music critics, who are not easily impressed choosy(or choosey), dainty, delicate, exacting, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussbudgety, fussy, nice, old-maidish, particular, pernickety(chiefly British), persnickety, picky hyperfastidious, overdemanding, ultrafastidiousdiscerning, discriminating, selectiveinsightful, knowledgeablecaptious, carping, caviling(or cavilling), critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcriticalcareful, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulousqueasy(also queazy), squeamishpeevish, petulant, prickly, touchyniminy-piminy, prim, prissy undemanding, unfastidious, unfussy affable, breezy, carefree, devil-may-care, happy-go-lucky, lackadaisical, laid-back, low-pressure, relaxedflexible, lax, looselenient, permissiveuncriticalindiscriminating, undiscriminating requiring considerable physical or mental effortthe demanding task of reading and grading student compositions arduous, Augean, backbreaking, challenging, difficult, effortful, exacting, formidable, grueling(or gruelling), hard, heavy, hellacious, herculean, killer, laborious, moiling, murderous, pick-and-shovel, rigorous, rough, rugged, severe, stiff, strenuous, sweaty, tall, testing, toilsome, tough, uphill abstract, abstruse, complex, complicated, elusive, hairy, insoluble, intricate, involved, knotty, opaque, problematic(also problematical), recondite, serious, spiny, stubborn, thorny, ticklish, trickybruising, burdensome, exhausting, labored, onerous, oppressive, stressful, taxing, tight, tryingannoying, bothersome, distressing, irksome, troublesome, vexatiousgrievous, grim, strict, stringentbrutal, cruel, inhuman, painful cheap, easy, effortless, facile, light, mindless, simple, soft, undemanding achievable, clear, doable, elementary, manageable, uncomplicatedcomforting, gentle, painless, relaxed, smooth, soothingaccessible, friendly, idiotproof, user-friendly to ask for (something) earnestly or with authoritythe losing party demanded a recount of the votes cast in the election calling (for), claiming, clamoring (for), commanding, enjoining, exacting, insisting (on), pressing (for), questing, stipulating (for) asking, pleading (for), requesting, wantingcrying (for), necessitating, needing, requiring, taking, warrantingrequisitioningimposingbadgering, dunning, harassing, hounding giving up, relinquishing, surrendering, yielding to have as a requirementa task that demands one's unremitting attention bearing, challenging, claiming, necessitating, needing, requiring, taking, wanting, warranting entailing, involvingasking, begging, claiming, clamoring (for), crying (for)hurting (for), lackingcommanding, enjoining, exacting, insisting, pressing, questing, stipulating calling for having, holding owning, possessing to set or receive as a pricesuperstars of the big screen who demand millions for appearing in a movie asking, charging, commanding overcharging, underchargingbringing, fetching, selling (for)discounting, marking down, marking upassessing, billing, invoicingpricing, valuing in 1926 |