Exacting

ahd-5
  • adjective. Making severe demands; rigorous.
  • adjective. Requiring great care, effort, or attention.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Given to or characterized by exaction; severe in requirement or requisition; exigent in action or procedure: as, an exacting master; an exacting inquiry.
  • Attended by exaction; requiring close attention or application; arduous; laborious; absorbing: as, an exacting office or employment; exacting duties; exacting demands upon one's time.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Making excessive demands; hard to satisfy.
  • adjective. Requiring precise accuracy
  • verb. Present participle of exact.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. requiring precise accuracy
  • adjective. severe and unremitting in making demands
  • adjective. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
    • Word Usage
    "I am obsessive about outlining, and the majority of any writing project is actually spent mapping out in exacting detail in advance everything that the characters will do and say in the course of a story or chapter."
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