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demanding [dɪˈmɑːndɪŋ] adj
requiring great patience, skill, etc. a demanding job demandingly adv ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
demanding adjective 1. difficult, trying, hard, taxing, wearing, challenging, tough, exhausting, exacting, exigent It is a demanding job. difficult easy, simple, straightforward, effortless, painless, uncomplicated, child's play (informal), facile, undemanding, a piece of cake (informal), no bother, easy-peasy (slang) 2. trying, difficult, troublesome, tiresome, imperious, fractious, unmanageable, clamorous, importunate, exigent a very demanding child Translations demanding [dɪˈmɑːndɪŋ] ADJ [person] → exigente; [work] (= tiring) → agotador; [part, role] → difícil it's a very demanding job → es un trabajo que exige mucho a demanding child → un niño que requiere mucha atención demanding adj child, job → anstrengend; task also, teacher, boss → anspruchsvoll; physically/mentally demanding → körperlich/geistig anstrengend demanding [dɪˈmɑːndɪŋ] adj (person) → esigente; (work, physically) → stancante; (mentally) → impegnativo/a demanding [dɪˈmɑːndɪŋ] adj (person) → esigente; (work, physically) → stancante; (mentally) → impegnativo/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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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