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demanding
adjective as in challenging, urgent
Strongest matches
ambitious, critical, difficult, exacting, exhausting, hard, onerous, pressing, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, troublesome, trying
Weak matches
backbreaker, bothersome, clamorous, dictatorial, exigent, fussy, grievous, imperious, importunate, insistent, oppressive, querulous, weighty
Example Sentences
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is demanding Japan raise rates to strengthen the yen.
That’s the point Norman hammers over and over as he settles into a less demanding life that includes more time running his personal company and serving on the board for the 2032 Olympics in Brisbane.
He became angry if the university student did not reply to his messages, acting in a "demanding, controlling and covert" way, she told the trial.
"I saw them beating teachers just for demanding a pay rise."
The patients are demanding to know how the surgeon was able to practise unchecked, despite warnings almost a decade earlier.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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