EXACTING Synonyms

• requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill

• sharply exact or accurate or delimited

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

• exercising caution or showing care or attention

• cautiously attentive

• unhurried and with care and dignity

• full of cares or anxiety

• mindful of the future in spending money

• 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

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

• marked by precise accordance with details

• marked by extreme care in treatment of details

• resulting in punishment

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

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• demanding strict attention to rules and procedures

• having scruples; arising from a sense of right and wrong; principled

• characterized by extreme care and great effort

• characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint

• rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

• (of rules) stringently enforced

• incapable of compromise or flexibility

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• painstakingly careful and accurate

• performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial

• without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers

• eager to acquire and possess things especially material possessions or ideas

• an assertion of a right (as to money or property)

• an assertion that something is true or factual

• demand for something as rightful or due

• an informal right to something

• an established or recognized right

• a demand

• assert or affirm strongly; state to be true or existing

• demand as being one's due or property; assert one's right or title to

• ask for legally or make a legal claim to, as of debts, for example

• lay claim to; as of an idea

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

• an urgent or peremptory request

• the ability and desire to purchase goods and services

• required activity

• the act of demanding

• a condition requiring relief

• request urgently and forcefully

• require as useful, just, or proper

• claim as due or just

• lay legal claim to

• summon to court

• ask to be informed of

• direct in spatial dimensions; proceeding without deviation or interruption; straight and short

• straightforward in means or manner or behavior or language or action

• in a straight unbroken line of descent from parent to child

• moving from west to east on the celestial sphere; or--for planets--around the sun in the same direction as the Earth

• similar in nature or effect or relation to another quantity

• (of a current) flowing in one direction only

• without deviation

• having no intervening persons, agents, conditions

• being an immediate result or consequence

• in precisely the same words used by a writer or speaker

• lacking compromising or mitigating elements

• command with authority

• intend (something) to move towards a certain goal

• guide the actors in (plays and films)

• govern or manage

• take somebody somewhere

• cause to go somewhere

• point or cause to go (blows, weapons, or objects such as photographic equipment) towards

• lead, as in the performance of a composition

• give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction

• specifically design a product, event, or activity for a certain public

• direct the course; determine the direction of travelling

• put an address on (an envelope)

• plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

• greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation

• understanding with difficulty

• the act of gripping something firmly with the hands (or the tentacles)

• immoderately desirous of acquiring e.g. wealth

• characterized by excessive precision and attention to trivial details

• living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

• excessively greedy and grasping

• devouring or craving food in great quantities