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- the demanding assignment kept them working all night long
Synonyms for demanding
- arduous,
- burdensome,
- challenging,
- exacting,
- grueling
- (or gruelling),
- killing,
- laborious,
- onerous,
- persnickety,
- taxing,
- toilsome
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Near Antonyms for demanding
- easy,
- effortless,
- facile,
- simple,
- smooth
Antonyms for demanding
- will play before a demanding audience of music critics, who are not easily impressed
Synonyms for demanding
- choosy
- (or choosey),
- dainty,
- delicate,
- exacting,
- fastidious,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- fussbudgety,
- fussy,
- nice,
- old-maidish,
- particular,
- pernickety
- [chiefly British],
- persnickety,
- picky
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- the demanding task of reading and grading student compositions
Synonyms for demanding
- 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
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Antonyms for demanding
- cheap,
- easy,
- effortless,
- facile,
- light,
- mindless,
- simple,
- soft,
- undemanding
demanding
verbSynonyms & Antonyms of demanding (Entry 2 of 2)
- the losing party demanded a recount of the votes cast in the election
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- a task that demands one's unremitting attention
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- superstars of the big screen who demand millions for appearing in a movie
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“Demanding.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/demanding. Accessed 27 Oct. 2020.
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The first known use of demanding was in 1926
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