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

A more demanding system might be worth its higher computing bill if it reliably finishes work that customers value.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

That is a far more demanding mission than the one universities inherited from the 20th century.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

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

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

Claire had been given increasingly more demanding tasks in the lab, but they were still tedious and repetitious.

From "Son" by Lois Lowry

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