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Exacting

To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.

📖 Definitions of "Exacting"

verb

1
To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.
"to exact tribute, fees, or obedience from someone"
2
To make desirable or necessary.
3
To inflict; to forcibly obtain or produce.
"to exact revenge on someone"

adjective

1
Making excessive demands; difficult to satisfy.
2
(of an action, task, etc) Requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
3
(of a person or organization) Characterized by exaction.

5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
fastidious	Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
exigentnoun	Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
sternnoun	Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
demanding	Making great demands in terms of quality, quantity, accuracy or other criteria; difficult to satisfy.
strict	Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.

Words with the opposite meaning.

Word	Definition
unfastidious	Not fastidious.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
fastidious	Excessively particular, demanding, or fussy about details, especially about tidiness and cleanliness.
exigentnoun	Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
demandingverb	Making great demands in terms of quality, quantity, accuracy or other criteria; difficult to satisfy.
strict	Governed or governing by exact rules; observing exact rules; severe; rigorous.
sternnoun	Having a hardness and severity of nature or manner.
ambitious	(of a person or their character) Having or showing ambition; wanting a lot of power, honor, respect, superiority, or other distinction.
pickynoun	Fussy; particular; demanding to have things just right.
rigorous	Showing, causing, or favoring rigour/rigor; scrupulously accurate or strict; thorough.
toughverb	(of a material) Strong and resilient; sturdy.
stringent	Strict; binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive; rigid; severe
intensivenoun	Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
tightverb	Firmly held together; compact; not loose or open.
strenuous	(of a task) Requiring great exertion; very laborious.
rigidnoun	Stiff, rather than flexible.
discerningnoun	Of keen insight or selective judgement; perceptive.
hardnoun	(of material or fluid) Solid and firm.
challengingnoun	Difficult, hard to do.
difficultverb	Hard, not easy, requiring much effort.
arduous	Needing or using up much energy; testing powers of endurance.
severenoun	Very bad or intense.