demanding

Verb

• request urgently and forcefully
  • "The victim's family is demanding compensation"
• require as useful, just, or proper
• claim as due or just
• lay legal claim to
• summon to court
• ask to be informed of
• present participle and gerund of demand

Adjective

• requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill
  • "found the job very demanding"
  • "a baby can be so demanding"

Adj

• Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience.
• Making great demands in terms of quality, quantity, accuracy or other criteria; difficult to satisfy.

Examples

• Our wines will satisfy even the most demanding of connoisseurs.
• This bike is built to withstand even the most demanding terrain.

Synonyms

ask, call for, demand, exact, involve, necessitate, need, postulate, require, take, authoritarian, autocratic, bossy, challenging, coercive, commanding, controlling, demanding, despotic, dictatorial, dominant, domineering, exacting, exigent, forceful, harsh, heavy-handed, iron-fisted, iron-handed, monocratic, obtrusive, oppressive, overbearing, strict, taxing, tyrannical

Antonyms

obviate, undemanding

Anagrams of demanding