demanding

Meanings

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.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

obviate, undemanding