Exacting Synonyms and Antonyms

ĭg-zăktĭng
Rigorous and unsparing in treating others
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. demanding
  2. hard
  3. harsh
  4. rigid
  5. severe
  6. stern
  7. strict
  8. tough
  9. unyielding
Very difficult to please
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. choosy
  2. dainty
  3. fastidious
  4. finical
  5. finicky
  6. fussy
  7. exigent
  8. meticulous
  9. nice
  10. particular
  11. persnickety
  12. squeamish
  13. picky
Antonyms:
  1. giving
  2. unfastidious
  3. lending
Inclined to adverse criticism
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. precise
Claim as due or just
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. requiring
  2. demanding
  3. extorting
  4. compelling
  5. requisitioning
  6. taking
  7. wreaking
  8. squaring
  9. claiming
  10. levying
  11. fining
  12. extracting
  13. evening
  14. enforcing
  15. imposing
  16. eliciting
  17. correcting
  18. commanding
Antonyms:
  1. giving
To establish and apply as compulsory
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. putting
  2. levying
  3. imposing
  4. assessing
To obtain by coercion or intimidation
(Verb)
Synonyms:
  1. wringing
  2. wrenching
  3. squeezing
  4. extorting

Words Related to Exacting

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Exacting Sentence Examples

  • These exacting tasks did not absorb all his energies.

  • Howie described the car, license plate, and man in exacting detail.

  • Every child dreams of slaying dragons, hitting the game-winning homerun, rescuing the oppressed and exacting justice on the villain.

  • But yes, it was very interesting work, quite exacting, you know.

  • His own standards of research were so exacting that he published far less than he should have done.

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