What is another word for exacting?
515 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɛɡzˈaktɪŋ], [ ɛɡzˈaktɪŋ], [ ɛ_ɡ_z_ˈa_k_t_ɪ_ŋ]Table of Contents
Similar words for exacting:- all (adjective)
- ambitious (adjective)
- assiduous (adjective)
- austere (adjective)
- burdensome (adjective)
- captious (adjective)
- careful (adjective)
- choosy (adjective)
- conscientious (adjective)
- critical (adjective)
- demanding (adjective)
- difficult (adjective)
- exact (adjective)
- exorbitant (adjective)
- fastidious (adjective)
- fussy (adjective)
- hard (adjective)
- hard-and-fast (adjective)
- imperious (adjective)
- nice (adjective)
- occupying (adjective)
- onerous (adjective)
- oppressive (adjective)
- overcritical (adjective)
- painstaking (adjective)
- particular (adjective)
- pressing (adjective)
- requiring (adjective)
- rigorous (adjective)
- severe (adjective)
- squeamish (adjective)
- strict (adjective)
- stringent (adjective)
- subtle (adjective)
- taxing (adjective)
- tight (adjective)
- tough (adjective)
- trying (adjective)
- unfeeling (adjective)
- demanding (noun)
- other synonyms
- relentless
Synonyms for Exacting:
adj.
•all (adjective) •ambitious (adjective) •assiduous (adjective)- more plugging,
- whizer,
- un flagging,
- un-flagging,
- more diligent,
- most plugging,
- un-tiring,
- steady,
- un tiring,
- whizest.
- somber,
- un relenting,
- in flexible,
- in-flexible,
- formal,
- in exorable,
- more serious,
- forbidding,
- in-exorable,
- un-relenting.
- more superincumbent,
- most crushing,
- more carking,
- most superincumbent,
- super incumbent,
- super-incumbent,
- most carking,
- more crushing.
- 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.
- de-liberate,
- most thorough,
- self disciplined,
- provident,
- more thorough,
- more careful,
- going great lengths,
- more selfdisciplined,
- more precise,
- de liberate,
- observant,
- most selfdisciplined.
- 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.
- unsparing,
- persnickety,
- grievous,
- by the book,
- precise,
- severe,
- finicky,
- harsh,
- hypercritical,
- rigid,
- picky.
- Operose,
- not easy,
- up-stream,
- immense,
- easier said than done,
- upstream,
- stiff,
- hard-won,
- Difficile,
- painful,
- galling,
- no picnic.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- most compulsatory,
- high handed,
- re-quired,
- overweening,
- re quired,
- over-weening,
- high-handed,
- over weening,
- more compulsatory.
- de-cent,
- be-fitting,
- well bred,
- wellbred,
- most finicking,
- be-coming,
- well-bred,
- more finicking,
- de cent.
- more plodding,
- over-powering,
- over-taxing,
- more headache,
- over powering,
- most headache,
- most embittering,
- most plodding,
- most overtaxing,
- more overtaxing,
- more embittering,
- over taxing.
- 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.
- 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.
- un compromising,
- more unpermissive,
- un-permissive,
- de finite,
- un-compromising,
- de-finite,
- unpermissive,
- un permissive,
- most unpermissive.
- 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.
- 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.
- more iron-fisted,
- up tight,
- most iron fisted,
- most ironfisted,
- more iron fisted,
- more ironfisted,
- nononsense,
- iron fisted,
- most iron-fisted,
- up-tight.
- 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.
- more enervating,
- most stressful,
- most sapping,
- more sapping,
- Sapping,
- most enervating,
- more stressful.
- 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.
- more aggravating,
- pro vocative,
- more vexing,
- most exasperating,
- ex-asperating,
- more exasperating,
- most vexing,
- ex asperating,
- most aggravating,
- pro-vocative.
- 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.
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- formidable,
- rough.
Other synonyms:
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- laborious.
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- arduous.
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- by,
- unyielding.
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- heavy.
Paraphrases for Exacting:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
demanding.
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Noun, singular or mass
demanding.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
difficult, discerning, painstaking, harsh, sophisticated, strenuous, aggressive, daunting, compute-intensive, binding, burdensome, restrictive, rigourous, scrupulous, thorough.
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Adjective
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Antonyms for Exacting:
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adj.
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all
unfastidious.
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demanding
easy-going, flexible, easy, inaccurate, lenient, loose, soft, tolerant, inexact, lending, yielding, careless, mild, giving.
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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.
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all
Homophones for Exacting:
- exciting, exceedance, ecdemic, exactness, exquisiteness, exhausting, executing, existing, existence, exceeding, equating, extinguish.