demanding
About 9.93 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience.
This bike is built to withstand even the most demanding terrain.
- adjective Making great demands in terms of quality, quantity, accuracy or other criteria; difficult to satisfy.
Our wines will satisfy even the most demanding of connoisseurs.
- verb present participle and gerund of demand
- noun The act of making a demand.
Similar words
exigent strict tight stern stringent exacting rigorous hard-to-please hard to please tightened
Often followed by
that the a and to of an more than
Word family
demandingly demandingness demandingnesses
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