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exacting [ɪgˈzæktɪŋ] adj
making rigorous or excessive demands an exacting job exactingly adv exactingness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
exacting adjective 1. demanding, hard, taxing, difficult, tough, painstaking He was not well enough to carry out such an exacting task. demanding easy, simple, effortless, undemanding, no bother, easy-peasy (slang) Translations exacting adj person, work, task → anspruchsvoll; standards, demands → hoch; detail → peinlich genau; to be very exacting → sehr viel verlangen; he’s very exacting about cleanliness → er ist peinlich genau, was Sauberkeit angeht, er nimmt es mit der Sauberkeit sehr genau 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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Pumhosl's finely differentiated and exactingly contoured personal method entails a very close look at abstract and reductionist traditions of modernism while at the same time referring to representation. Of course, he's ordered to do so by local authorities if he's to remain in Venice, a paradise of overflowing pulchritude so exactingly lit and digitally worried-over it appears to be a pastel realm you might not find too far from Toontown at Disneyland. Having learned to employ their bodies conscientiously, exactingly, and systematically via gymnastics, those girls evidently were conditioned to do the same during regular, orderly, and meticulously precise performances of their domestic chores. |
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