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

Example Sentences

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That immediate closeness — and a shared love of pizza crunch, a battered pizza popular in Scotland — allowed the actors to take on the more demanding aspects of their roles.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

Improving energy efficiency is especially important as artificial intelligence systems grow more demanding.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026

Some research has stoked fear among workers that, if their jobs aren’t replaced, work will become more demanding and intense.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

Their real challenge—learning how to arbitrage sovereignty and openness in a fragmented and asymmetric global economy—is far more demanding.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

There were more demanding problems than figuring out where he was or how long it took for him to get there.

From "The Voyage Of The Frog" by Gary Paulsen