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

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

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

But as artificial intelligence grows more demanding, the limits of electron-based hardware are becoming harder to ignore.

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

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

The Gulf offers useful insights, but Ukraine is the more demanding laboratory.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

Not only were they studying as though they had exams every day, but the lessons themselves had become more demanding than ever before.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling