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demanding
Synonyms and Antonyms of demanding
- the demanding assignment kept them working all night long
arduous, burdensome, challenging, exacting, grueling (or gruelling), killing, laborious, onerous, persnickety, taxing, toilsome
easy, effortless, facile, simple, smooth
- will 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, ultrafastidious
discerning, discriminating, selective
captious, carping, caviling (or cavilling), critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical
careful, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulous
queasy (also queazy), squeamish
- the 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, tricky
bruising, burdensome, exhausting, labored, onerous, oppressive, stressful, taxing, tight, trying
annoying, bothersome, distressing, irksome, troublesome, vexatious
cheap, easy, effortless, facile, light, mindless, simple, soft, undemanding
Synonyms and Antonyms of demanding
- the losing party demanded a recount of the votes cast in the election
- a task that demands one's unremitting attention
- superstars of the big screen who demand millions for appearing in a movie
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