Synonyms for Exacting:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • exacting,
  • stern.
  •ambitious (adjective)
  • impressive,
  • loftier,
  • visionary,
  • lofty,
  • grandiose,
  • strenuous,
  • pretentious.
  •assiduous (adjective)
  • more plugging,
  • whizer,
  • un flagging,
  • un-flagging,
  • more diligent,
  • most plugging,
  • un-tiring,
  • steady,
  • un tiring,
  • whizest.
  •austere (adjective)
  • somber,
  • un relenting,
  • in flexible,
  • in-flexible,
  • formal,
  • in exorable,
  • more serious,
  • forbidding,
  • in-exorable,
  • un-relenting.
  •burdensome (adjective)
  • more superincumbent,
  • most crushing,
  • more carking,
  • most superincumbent,
  • super incumbent,
  • super-incumbent,
  • most carking,
  • more crushing.
  •captious (adjective)
  • most deprecating,
  • nit picking,
  • hyper-critical,
  • more nit picking,
  • more deprecating,
  • more exceptive,
  • most caviling,
  • fault finding,
  • most nit-picking,
  • most cavillous,
  • hyper critical,
  • irritable,
  • more cavillous,
  • most exceptive,
  • more caviling,
  • most nit picking,
  • more nit-picking.
  •careful (adjective)
  • de-liberate,
  • most thorough,
  • self disciplined,
  • provident,
  • more thorough,
  • more careful,
  • going great lengths,
  • more selfdisciplined,
  • more precise,
  • de liberate,
  • observant,
  • most selfdisciplined.
  •choosy (adjective)
  • most overparticular,
  • finical,
  • more overparticular,
  • over particular.
  •conscientious (adjective)
  • re liablest,
  • walking eggs,
  • heart soul in to,
  • minding ps and qs,
  • minding p q,
  • minding p's q's,
  • re liable,
  • hanging in,
  • re-liablest,
  • re liabler,
  • heart and soul in to,
  • faithful,
  • minding p and q,
  • re-liable,
  • heart soul into,
  • re-liabler,
  • minding ps qs.
  •critical (adjective)
  • calumniatory,
  • reproachful.
  •demanding (adjective)
  • unsparing,
  • persnickety,
  • grievous,
  • by the book,
  • precise,
  • severe,
  • finicky,
  • harsh,
  • hypercritical,
  • rigid,
  • picky.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • Operose,
  • not easy,
  • up-stream,
  • immense,
  • easier said than done,
  • upstream,
  • stiff,
  • hard-won,
  • Difficile,
  • painful,
  • galling,
  • no picnic.
  •exact (adjective)
  • more conscionable,
  • ex act,
  • ex-act,
  • most conscionable.
  •exorbitant (adjective)
  • more overboard,
  • over much,
  • ex-pensive,
  • out of sight,
  • over board,
  • un reasonable,
  • pricier,
  • most absonant,
  • most overboard,
  • more absonant,
  • un-duer,
  • un-due,
  • un duest,
  • over-board,
  • un-conscionable,
  • in ordinate,
  • un duer,
  • un-reasonable,
  • un conscionable,
  • towering,
  • un-warranted,
  • unwarranted,
  • priciest,
  • in-ordinate,
  • un warranted,
  • over ones head,
  • over-much,
  • un due,
  • out sight,
  • ex pensive,
  • over one head,
  • un-duest.
  •fastidious (adjective)
  • flawless,
  • discerning,
  • epicurean,
  • prudish,
  • mincing,
  • dainty,
  • meticulous,
  • fussbudgety,
  • correct,
  • delicate,
  • priggish,
  • nit-picky,
  • easily disgusted,
  • punctilious,
  • perspicacious,
  • discriminating,
  • over-nice,
  • methodical,
  • accurate,
  • diligent,
  • prim,
  • literal,
  • scrupulous,
  • Stickling,
  • hard to please,
  • proper,
  • overdelicate,
  • overnice.
  •fussy (adjective)
  • more picky picky,
  • most fuddyduddy,
  • fuddy duddy,
  • most fuddy-duddy,
  • most pickypicky,
  • most fuddy duddy,
  • more picky-picky,
  • more fuddy duddy,
  • more pickypicky,
  • over fastidious,
  • over-fastidious,
  • most picky-picky,
  • fuddyduddy,
  • more fuddyduddy,
  • pickypicky,
  • most overfastidious,
  • more fuddy-duddy,
  • most picky picky,
  • picky picky,
  • more overfastidious.
  •hard (adjective)
  • Toilful,
  • harder,
  • hard as nails,
  • coldblooded,
  • hardboiled,
  • uphill battle.
  •hard-and-fast (adjective)
  • set in concrete.
  •imperious (adjective)
  • most compulsatory,
  • high handed,
  • re-quired,
  • overweening,
  • re quired,
  • over-weening,
  • high-handed,
  • over weening,
  • more compulsatory.
  •nice (adjective)
  • de-cent,
  • be-fitting,
  • well bred,
  • wellbred,
  • most finicking,
  • be-coming,
  • well-bred,
  • more finicking,
  • de cent.
  •occupying (adjective)
  • concentrated upon,
  • concerned with.
  •onerous (adjective)
  • more plodding,
  • over-powering,
  • over-taxing,
  • more headache,
  • over powering,
  • most headache,
  • most embittering,
  • most plodding,
  • most overtaxing,
  • more overtaxing,
  • more embittering,
  • over taxing.
  •oppressive (adjective)
  • dis heartening,
  • de pressing,
  • dis-heartening,
  • more depressive,
  • Over-bearing,
  • most disheartening,
  • most ironhanded,
  • heavy handed,
  • most depressive,
  • heavyhanded,
  • more ironhanded,
  • most confining,
  • in human,
  • over bearing,
  • de-pressing,
  • more disheartening,
  • in-human,
  • more confining.
  •overcritical (adjective)
  • overcritical,
  • over critical.
  •painstaking (adjective)
  • fussbudget,
  • hard-working,
  • by numbers.
  •particular (adjective)
  • choicier,
  • choiciest.
  •pressing (adjective)
  • heaton,
  • hurry up,
  • hurryup,
  • more hurry up,
  • more claiming,
  • most heat-on,
  • more forcing,
  • most constraining,
  • more high priority,
  • heat on,
  • more hurryup,
  • more hurry-up,
  • most claiming,
  • more highpriority,
  • most highpriority,
  • most high-priority,
  • most high priority,
  • more heaton,
  • highpriority,
  • more heat-on,
  • more heat on,
  • most hurry up,
  • most heat on,
  • high priority,
  • more constraining,
  • more high-priority,
  • most hurryup,
  • most heaton,
  • most forcing,
  • most hurry-up.
  •requiring (adjective)
  • more necessitating,
  • more involving,
  • re quiring,
  • most necessitating,
  • most involving,
  • re-quiring.
  •rigorous (adjective)
  • un compromising,
  • more unpermissive,
  • un-permissive,
  • de finite,
  • un-compromising,
  • de-finite,
  • unpermissive,
  • un permissive,
  • most unpermissive.
  •severe (adjective)
  • acrimonious,
  • blunt,
  • caustic,
  • astringent,
  • basic,
  • crisp,
  • short,
  • obstinate,
  • bleak,
  • cool,
  • sharp,
  • fundamental,
  • piquant,
  • dour,
  • disciplined,
  • strait-laced,
  • inflexible,
  • raw,
  • obdurate,
  • chilly,
  • brisk,
  • tart,
  • keen,
  • grim,
  • censorious,
  • curt,
  • frosty,
  • relentless,
  • intolerant,
  • cutting,
  • puritanical,
  • acerbic,
  • acute,
  • intense,
  • ascetic,
  • brusque,
  • spare,
  • imperial,
  • gruff,
  • icy,
  • unbending,
  • abrupt,
  • stark,
  • hidebound,
  • authoritarian,
  • spartan,
  • uncompromising,
  • dry,
  • stiff-necked,
  • draconian,
  • lean.
  •squeamish (adjective)
  • un-settled,
  • sick one's stomach,
  • more qualmish,
  • sick to ones stomach,
  • sick stomach,
  • sick to one stomach,
  • strait laced,
  • dis gusted,
  • sick one stomach,
  • un settled,
  • dis-gusted,
  • vertiginous,
  • sick ones stomach,
  • up-set,
  • most qualmish,
  • sick to one's stomach,
  • sick to stomach.
  •strict (adjective)
  • more iron-fisted,
  • up tight,
  • most iron fisted,
  • most ironfisted,
  • more iron fisted,
  • more ironfisted,
  • nononsense,
  • iron fisted,
  • most iron-fisted,
  • up-tight.
  •stringent (adjective)
  • most brickwall,
  • more brick-wall,
  • dyed in the wool,
  • most drawing,
  • more drawing,
  • most brick-wall,
  • brickwall,
  • hard nosed,
  • more brick wall,
  • most brick wall,
  • more brickwall.
  •subtle (adjective)
  • ratiocinative.
  •taxing (adjective)
  • more enervating,
  • most stressful,
  • most sapping,
  • more sapping,
  • Sapping,
  • most enervating,
  • more stressful.
  •tight (adjective)
  • up setting,
  • pre carious,
  • pre-carious,
  • up-setting.
  •tough (adjective)
  • more hard shelled,
  • most hardshelled,
  • re-solute,
  • un alterable,
  • un forgiving,
  • un bending,
  • un-bending,
  • most hard shelled,
  • most ruffianly,
  • unforgiving,
  • un-manageable,
  • un-forgiving,
  • un-alterable,
  • un controllable,
  • most hard-shelled,
  • hardline,
  • un-controllable,
  • in tractable,
  • re solute,
  • un manageable,
  • hard bitten,
  • more hardshelled,
  • no piece cake,
  • more ruffianly,
  • hard shelled,
  • hardshelled,
  • no piece of cake,
  • more hard-shelled,
  • in-tractable.
  •trying (adjective)
  • more aggravating,
  • pro vocative,
  • more vexing,
  • most exasperating,
  • ex-asperating,
  • more exasperating,
  • most vexing,
  • ex asperating,
  • most aggravating,
  • pro-vocative.
  •unfeeling (adjective)
  • in-sensible,
  • most unamiable,
  • most sensationless,
  • un amiable,
  • iron hearted,
  • un feeling,
  • un cordial,
  • un compassionate,
  • more deadened,
  • most iron-hearted,
  • most feelingless,
  • in-animate,
  • un caring,
  • be numbed,
  • in-sensate,
  • in animate,
  • in sensitive,
  • most iron hearted,
  • most deadened,
  • un emotional,
  • more ironhearted,
  • more sensationless,
  • more iron hearted,
  • un-cordial,
  • more unamiable,
  • be-numbed,
  • in sensate,
  • more anesthetized,
  • un-compassionate,
  • in sensible,
  • un-amiable,
  • cold hearted,
  • more iron-hearted,
  • most ironhearted,
  • in-sensitive,
  • most anesthetized,
  • un-emotional,
  • un-feeling,
  • un-caring,
  • most uncordial,
  • more feelingless,
  • Iron-hearted,
  • more uncordial.

• n.

  •
  • high,
  • above,
  • average,
  • low.
  •
  • bossy,
  • on someone's back,
  • prescriptive,
  • interfering,
  • accept,
  • meddlesome,
  • intrusive.
  •
  • formidable,
  • rough.
  •demanding (noun)
  • study at onerous.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • backbreaking,
  • standard,
  • qualitative,
  • classical,
  • advanced,
  • effortful,
  • classically.
  •
  • laborious.
  •
  • arduous.
  •
  • by,
  • unyielding.
  •
  • heavy.
  •relentless
  • remorseless.

Paraphrases for Exacting:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    demanding.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    demanding.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    difficult, discerning, painstaking, harsh, sophisticated, strenuous, aggressive, daunting, compute-intensive, binding, burdensome, restrictive, rigourous, scrupulous, thorough.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    mandating, searching, insisting, demanding, trying, binding.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    stringent, strict, onerous, tough, ambitious, intensive, intense, rigid, high.

Antonyms for Exacting:

• adj.

  • all
    unfastidious.
  • demanding
    easy-going, flexible, easy, inaccurate, lenient, loose, soft, tolerant, inexact, lending, yielding, careless, mild, giving.
  • Other antonyms:
    devil-may-care, undiscriminating, complaisant, pliable, comforting, negligent, spoiling, constitutional, conditional, meek, lax, indiscriminating, neglectful, permissive, merciful, slovenly, accessible, gentle, happy-go-lucky, kindly, limited, achievable, affable, carefree, responsible, uncritical, manageable, submissive, sloppy, compliant, soothing, elementary, docile, pampering, remiss, lowly, compromising, laid-back, doable, acquiescent, relaxed, lackadaisical, user-friendly, unchallenging, pliant, easygoing, breezy, ductile, humble, uncomplicated, friendly, mindless, accountable, slack, slipshod, indulgent, contingent, clear.

Homophones for Exacting:

• exciting, exceedance, ecdemic, exactness, exquisiteness, exhausting, executing, existing, existence, exceeding, equating, extinguish.