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ex-acting
adjective as in assiduous
adjective as in nice
Strong matches
Weak matches
- accurate
- becoming
- befitting
- careful
- choosy
- conforming
- correct
- critical
- cultured
- decent
- delicate
- discerning
- discriminating
- distinguishing
- exact
- exacting
- fastidious
- finespun
- finical
- finicking
- finicky
- fussy
- genteel
- meticulous
- persnickety
- picky
- proper
- respectable
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- seemly
- squeamish
- strict
- subtle
- trivial
- virtuous
- well-bred
adjective as in onerous
Strongest matches
adjective as in oppressive
Strongest matches
adjective as in painstaking
Strong match
adjective as in particular
adjective as in austere
adjective as in pressing
adjective as in rigorous
adjective as in rugged
adjective as in squeamish
adjective as in stiff
adjective as in strict
adjective as in stringent
Strongest matches
adjective as in subtle
adjective as in taxing
adjective as in tight
adjective as in tiresome
Strongest matches
adjective as in tough
Strong matches
Weak matches
adjective as in tough
adjective as in trying
adjective as in unfeeling
Weak matches
- anesthetized
- apathetic
- asleep
- benumbed
- brutal
- callous
- cantankerous
- churlish
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- cold-hearted
- crotchety
- cruel
- deadened
- exacting
- feelingless
- hard
- hardened
- heartless
- icy
- inanimate
- inhuman
- insensate
- insensible
- insensitive
- iron-hearted
- merciless
- obdurate
- pitiless
- ruthless
- sensationless
- senseless
- severe
- stony
- surly
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unamiable
- uncaring
- uncompassionate
- uncordial
- unemotional
- unkind
- unsympathetic
adjective as in weighty
adjective as in extortionate
adjective as in hard-and-fast
adjective as in occupying
adjective as in requiring
Weak matches
adjective as in burdensome
adjective as in captious
adjective as in careful
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in choosy
adjective as in overcritical
Weak matches
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
adjective as in conscientious
adjective as in critical
Strongest match
Weak matches
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
adjective as in demanding
adjective as in difficult
Strongest matches
adjective as in exacting
adjective as in exigent
adjective as in exorbitant
adjective as in fastidious
adjective as in ambitious
adjective as in fussy
adjective as in hard
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- backbreaking
- bothersome
- burdensome
- demanding
- difficile
- distressing
- effortful
- exacting
- fatiguing
- formidable
- grinding
- hairy
- herculean
- intricate
- involved
- irksome
- knotty
- labored
- laborious
- mean
- merciless
- murder
- onerous
- operose
- rigorous
- rugged
- scabrous
- severe
- slavish
- sticky
- strenuous
- tiring
- toilful
- toilsome
- unsparing
- uphill
- uphill battle
- wearing
- wearisome
- wearying
adjective as in hard
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- angry
- antagonistic
- austere
- bitter
- brutal
- callous
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- dark
- disagreeable
- distressing
- dour
- exacting
- grievous
- hard as nails
- hard-boiled
- hostile
- inclement
- intemperate
- intolerable
- obdurate
- perverse
- pitiless
- rancorous
- resentful
- rigorous
- rugged
- severe
- stern
- strict
- stringent
- stubborn
- thick-skinned
- unfeeling
- unjust
- unkind
- unpleasant
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- vengeful
adjective as in imperious
verb as in inflict
verb as in levy
verb as in assess
verb as in need
verb as in require
verb as in requisition
verb as in screw
verb as in seize
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in solicit
Strong matches
verb as in tax
verb as in wrench
verb as in wring
verb as in blackmail
verb as in call
verb as in challenge
Strong matches
verb as in wrest
verb as in claim
Strong matches
verb as in command
Strong matches
verb as in command
Strong matches
verb as in compel
verb as in demand
Strong matches
verb as in elicit
verb as in enforce
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in exact
verb as in expect
verb as in extort
verb as in extract
verb as in fine
Strongest matches
verb as in force
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in impose
Strongest matches
Strong matches
adjective as in assiduous
adjective as in nice
Strong matches
Weak matches
- accurate
- becoming
- befitting
- careful
- choosy
- conforming
- correct
- critical
- cultured
- decent
- delicate
- discerning
- discriminating
- distinguishing
- exact
- exacting
- fastidious
- finespun
- finical
- finicking
- finicky
- fussy
- genteel
- meticulous
- persnickety
- picky
- proper
- respectable
- rigorous
- scrupulous
- seemly
- squeamish
- strict
- subtle
- trivial
- virtuous
- well-bred
adjective as in onerous
Strongest matches
adjective as in oppressive
Strongest matches
adjective as in painstaking
Strong match
adjective as in particular
adjective as in austere
adjective as in pressing
adjective as in rigorous
adjective as in rugged
adjective as in squeamish
adjective as in stiff
adjective as in strict
adjective as in stringent
Strongest matches
adjective as in subtle
adjective as in taxing
adjective as in tight
adjective as in tiresome
Strongest matches
adjective as in tough
Strong matches
Weak matches
adjective as in tough
adjective as in trying
adjective as in unfeeling
Weak matches
- anesthetized
- apathetic
- asleep
- benumbed
- brutal
- callous
- cantankerous
- churlish
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- cold-hearted
- crotchety
- cruel
- deadened
- exacting
- feelingless
- hard
- hardened
- heartless
- icy
- inanimate
- inhuman
- insensate
- insensible
- insensitive
- iron-hearted
- merciless
- obdurate
- pitiless
- ruthless
- sensationless
- senseless
- severe
- stony
- surly
- thick-skinned
- tough
- unamiable
- uncaring
- uncompassionate
- uncordial
- unemotional
- unkind
- unsympathetic
adjective as in weighty
adjective as in extortionate
adjective as in hard-and-fast
adjective as in occupying
adjective as in requiring
Weak matches
adjective as in burdensome
adjective as in captious
adjective as in careful
Strongest matches
Strong match
adjective as in choosy
adjective as in overcritical
Weak matches
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demanding
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- faultfinding
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
adjective as in conscientious
adjective as in critical
Strongest match
Weak matches
- analytical
- belittling
- biting
- calumniatory
- captious
- carping
- caviling
- cavillous
- censorious
- censuring
- choleric
- condemning
- critic
- cutting
- cynical
- demeaning
- derogatory
- diagnostic
- disapproving
- discerning
- discriminating
- disparaging
- exacting
- exceptive
- finicky
- fussy
- hairsplitting
- humbling
- hypercritical
- lowering
- nagging
- niggling
- nit-picking
- overcritical
- particular
- penetrating
- reproachful
- sarcastic
- satirical
- scolding
- severe
- sharp
- trenchant
- withering
adjective as in demanding
adjective as in difficult
Strongest matches
adjective as in exacting
adjective as in exigent
adjective as in exorbitant
adjective as in fastidious
adjective as in ambitious
adjective as in fussy
adjective as in hard
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- backbreaking
- bothersome
- burdensome
- demanding
- difficile
- distressing
- effortful
- exacting
- fatiguing
- formidable
- grinding
- hairy
- herculean
- intricate
- involved
- irksome
- knotty
- labored
- laborious
- mean
- merciless
- murder
- onerous
- operose
- rigorous
- rugged
- scabrous
- severe
- slavish
- sticky
- strenuous
- tiring
- toilful
- toilsome
- unsparing
- uphill
- uphill battle
- wearing
- wearisome
- wearying
adjective as in hard
Weak matches
- acrimonious
- angry
- antagonistic
- austere
- bitter
- brutal
- callous
- cold
- cold fish
- cold-blooded
- dark
- disagreeable
- distressing
- dour
- exacting
- grievous
- hard as nails
- hard-boiled
- hostile
- inclement
- intemperate
- intolerable
- obdurate
- perverse
- pitiless
- rancorous
- resentful
- rigorous
- rugged
- severe
- stern
- strict
- stringent
- stubborn
- thick-skinned
- unfeeling
- unjust
- unkind
- unpleasant
- unrelenting
- unsparing
- unsympathetic
- vengeful
adjective as in imperious
verb as in inflict
verb as in levy
verb as in assess
verb as in need
verb as in require
verb as in requisition
verb as in screw
verb as in seize
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in solicit
Strong matches
verb as in tax
verb as in wrench
verb as in wring
verb as in blackmail
verb as in call
verb as in challenge
Strong matches
verb as in wrest
verb as in claim
Strong matches
verb as in command
Strong matches
verb as in command
Strong matches
verb as in compel
verb as in demand
Strong matches
verb as in elicit
verb as in enforce
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in exact
verb as in expect
verb as in extort
verb as in extract
verb as in fine
Strongest matches
verb as in force
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in impose
Strongest matches
Strong matches
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On this page you'll find 2973 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to ex-acting, such as: diligent, exacting, indefatigable, laborious, scrupulous, and zealous.
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