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demanding

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de·mand·ing  (d-mndng)
adj.
Requiring much effort or attention: exhausted by a demanding job. See Synonyms at burdensome.

de·manding·ly adv.

demanding
Adjective
requiring a lot of skill, time, or effort: a demanding relationship
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.demanding - requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding"
difficult, hard - not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure; "a difficult task"; "nesting places on the cliffs are difficult of access"; "difficult times"; "why is it so hard for you to keep a secret?"
undemanding - requiring little if any patience or effort or skill; "the pay was adequate and the job undemanding"; "simple undemanding affection"; "an undemanding boss"

demanding
Translations
Spanish demanding [dɪˈmɑːndɪŋ] adj [boss] → exigente; [work] → absorbente
French demanding [dɪˈmɑːndɪŋ] demand adj [person] → exigeant(e); [work] → astreignant(e)
German demanding [dɪˈmɑːndɪŋ] demand adjanspruchsvoll;
(work, child) → anstrengend

Italian demanding [dɪˈmɑːndɪŋ] adj [boss] → esigente; [work] → impegnativo/a

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I would decipher a sound which a cockney would represent by zerr, and a Frenchman by seu, and then write demanding with some heat what on earth it meant.
She arrived with her uncle last Thursday fortnight, when, of course, I lost no time in demanding the cause of her behaviour; and soon found myself to have been perfectly right in attributing it to my own letter.
And for this reason, I said, money and honour have no attraction for them; good men do not wish to be openly demanding payment for governing and so to get the name of hirelings, nor by secretly helping themselves out of the public revenues to get the name of thieves.
 
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