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demanding

/dəˈmændɪŋ/adjective3 syllables

Demanding means: requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill.

Synonyms for demanding12

adjective, as in requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill

exigent, exacting, hard-to-please, hard to please, needy, rigorous, stringent, tight, stern, strict, difficult, hard

Opposites of demanding

undemanding

What does demanding mean?1

adjective

1

requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill“found the job very demanding”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with demanding?10

five syllables

misunderstanding
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Demanding in a sentence

  • Moldovans took to the streets, demanding accountability from their political representatives.Amastan
  • Sales position jobs are probably very demanding, right?terrywallwork
  • It may be a demanding job, but at least it's not boring.WarsawWill
  • If you're so demanding of others, you should also be demanding of yourself.Dejo
  • Janos is banging on the door, demanding to be let in.Amastan
  • Sales business jobs are probably very demanding, right?terrywallwork
  • The new client is very demanding, we need to handle him with kid gloves.Nuel
  • The job pays well, but it's really demanding.DJ_Saidez

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