exacting
Use the adjective exacting to describe something or someone very precise or strict in its requirements. If your teacher has exacting standards about spelling and punctuation, you better carefully check your final paper.
An exacting person expects things to be, well, exact. For this reason, demanding is a good synonym. Friends who are exacting might let you have it if you show up a minute or two late. Some exacting people are extremely selective about what they eat, rejecting anything that doesn't meet their complicated standards of nutrition and taste.
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severe and unremitting in making demands
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requiring precise accuracy
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having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures“certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements”
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synonyms:
fastidious
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Antonyms:
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unfastidious
not exacting in nutritional requirements
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unfastidious
Vocabulary lists containing exacting
This list of warm-up words features common words on the test that you're probably familiar with. Brush up on these words first to make sure that you start off strong while taking the GRE.
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After being liberated from a Nazi concentration camp, a teenager embarks on a quest to find her brother.
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