DEMANDING Synonyms

• requiring full use of your abilities or resources

• stimulating interest or thought

• disturbingly provocative

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• hard to control

• having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• requiring precise accuracy

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• dispassionate

• resisting weight or pressure

• produced without vibration of the vocal cords

• (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source

• (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum

• with effort or force or vigor

• with firmness

• earnestly or intently

• causing great damage or hardship

• slowly and with difficulty

• indulging excessively

• into a solid condition

• very near or close in space or time

• with pain or distress or bitterness

• to the full extent possible; all the way

• very strong or vigorous

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• dried out

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• not easily borne; wearing

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

• characterized by or performed with much energy or force

• taxing to the utmost; testing powers of endurance

• not given to gentleness or sentimentality

• physically toughened

• resistant to cutting or chewing

• someone who learned to fight in the streets rather than being formally trained in the sport of boxing

• an aggressive and violent young criminal

• a cruel and brutal fellow

• very difficult; severely testing stamina or resolution

• substantially made or constructed

• violent and lawless

• feeling physical discomfort or pain (`tough' is occasionally used colloquially for `bad')

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve or believe

• a condition requiring relief

• anything that is necessary but lacking

• the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior

• a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• require as useful, just, or proper

• have need of

• have or feel a need for

• express the need or desire for

• require as useful, just, or proper

• request the participation or presence of

• gather or collect

• make a request or demand for something to somebody

• direct or put; seek an answer to

• consider obligatory; request and expect

• address a question to and expect an answer from

• require as useful, just, or proper

• make a date

• require or ask for as a price or condition

• marked by strict and particular and complete accordance with fact

• (of ideas, images, representations, expressions) characterized by perfect conformity to fact or truth; strictly correct

• lacking compromising or mitigating elements

• claim as due or just

• take as an undesirable consequence of some event or state of affairs

• be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge

• beg persistently and urgently

• postulate positively and assertively

• connect closely and often incriminatingly

• engage as a participant

• have as a necessary feature

• require as useful, just, or proper

• contain as a part

• occupy or engage the interest of

• make complex or intricate or complicated

• require as useful, just, or proper

• cause to be a concomitant

• (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning

• maintain or assert

• take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom

• require as useful, just, or proper

• require as useful, just, or proper

• consider obligatory; request and expect

• make someone do something

• have need of

• required activity

• anything indispensable

• something that is required in advance