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English

Etymology

From exact + -ing

Adjective

Making excessive demands; hard to satisfy.
Requiring precise accuracy

Verb

exacting

Derived terms

es:exacting fr:exacting io:exacting it:exacting vi:exacting

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Exacting \Ex*act"ing\, a.
Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or
requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh;
severe. "A temper so exacting." --T. Arnold --
Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Exact \Ex*act"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exacted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Exacting.] [From L. exactus, p. p. of exigere; or fr. LL.
exactare: cf. OF. exacter. See Exact, a.]
To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a
right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel
to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward
when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one
subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience,
etc., from or of some one.
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He said into them, Exact no more than that which is
appointed you. --Luke. iii.
13.
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Years of servise past
From grateful souls exact reward at last --Dryden.
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My designs
Exact me in another place. --Massinger.
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WordNet exacting
adj 1: having complicated nutritional requirements; especially
growing only in special artificial cultures;
"fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly
specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their
requirements" [syn: fastidious] [ant: unfastidious]
2: severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting
instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
[syn: stern, strict]
3: requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more
exigent over his pronunciation" [syn: exigent]

Moby Dictionary
Herculean , Spartan , Spartanic , abstruse , accurate , arduous ,
arousing , astringent , attentive , austere , authoritarian , brutal ,
burdensome , censorious , choicy , choosy , clamant , clamorous , close ,
complex , conscientious , correct , critical , crying , cutthroat ,
delicate , demanding , detailed , difficile , difficult ,
discriminating , discriminative , dour , draining , educible , eductive ,
elicitory , eradicative , evocative , exact , exactive , excessive ,
exigent , exorbitant , exquisite , extortionary , extortionate ,
extortive , extractive , extravagant , fancy , fastidious , fine ,
finical , finicking , finicky , formidable , fussy , gouging , grasping ,
grievous , grim , grossly overpriced , hairy , hard , hard-earned ,
hard-fought , harsh , hypercritical , immoderate , imperative ,
importunate , inflationary , inordinate , insistent , instant ,
intricate , jawbreaking , knotted , knotty , laborious , loud , mean ,
meticulous , minute , narrow , nice , no picnic , not easy , operose ,
oppressive , out of bounds , out of sight , outrageous , overpriced ,
particular , perfectionistic , persistent , pertinacious , picky ,
precise , precisianistic , precisionistic , preposterous , pressing ,
priggish , prohibitive , prudish , punctilious , punctual , puristic ,
puritanic , refined , religious , rigid , rigorous , rough , rugged ,
scrupulous , scrutinizing , selective , sensitive , set with thorns ,
severe , skyrocketing , spiny , spiraling , steep , stern , strenuous ,
strict , stringent , subtle , taxing , thorny , ticklish , toilsome ,
tough , tricky , trying , tyrannical , unconscionable , undue ,
unreasonable , unsparing , unwarranted , uphill , uprooting , urgent ,
usurious , weighty , wicked