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exacting
(redirected from exactingly)

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ex·act·ing  (g-zktng)
adj.
1. Making severe demands; rigorous: an exacting instructor.
2. Requiring great care, effort, or attention: an exacting task. See Synonyms at burdensome.

ex·acting·ly adv.
ex·acting·ness n.

exacting [ɪgˈzæktɪŋ]
adj
making rigorous or excessive demands an exacting job
exactingly  adv
exactingness  n
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Adj.1.exacting - having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"
microbiology - the branch of biology that studies microorganisms and their effects on humans
2.exacting - severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
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"
3.exacting - requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"
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"

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)
2. strict, severe, harsh, stern, rigid, rigorous, stringent, oppressive, imperious, unsparing Our new manager has very exacting standards.
Translations
exacting [ɪgˈzæktɪŋ] ADJ [task, activity, profession] → duro; [boss, person] → exigente; [conditions] → severo, riguroso
exacting [ɪgˈzæktɪŋ] adj
[person] → exigeant(e)
[work, task] → fatigant(e)
exacting
adj person, work, taskanspruchsvoll; standards, demandshoch; detailpeinlich genau; to be very exactingsehr viel verlangen; he’s very exacting about cleanlinesser ist peinlich genau, was Sauberkeit angeht, er nimmt es mit der Sauberkeit sehr genau
exacting [ɪgˈzæktɪŋ] adj (task, profession, work) → impegnativo/a; (person) → esigente
exacting [ɪgˈzæktɪŋ] adj (task, profession, work) → impegnativo/a; (person) → esigente


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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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