more demanding

ADJECTIVE

challenging, urgent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ambitious critical difficult exacting exhausting hard onerous pressing strict stringent taxing tough troublesome trying

STRONG

nagging wearing

WEAK

backbreaker bothersome clamorous dictatorial exigent fussy grievous imperious importunate insistent oppressive querulous weighty

Antonyms

STRONGEST

easy facile flexible inexact mild nice simple tolerant trivial uncertain unimportant yielding

WEAK

unchallenging undemanding

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more demanding

Glasner is demanding and will have an even more demanding owner in Evangelos Marinakis, but Forest will surely use the £116m from the sale of Anderson to back their new manager.

From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026

In some of the more demanding tests, the flower was hidden from view while the bees moved the ball.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 3, 2026

Hemani responds, whether intentionally or not, by making analogical reasoning more demanding rather than less.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

The declaration will make it possible "to be far more demanding" towards digital platforms and "leave them no choice but to change their way of working".

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

But the stairs in the house were steep, and the busy schedule of a presidential household was far more demanding than Mount Vernon.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis