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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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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

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

Democratic systems depend on something more demanding: the ability to tolerate disagreement, engage with complexity and distinguish between what feels true and what is demonstrably so.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Moments after eating, my belly growls for more, demanding sustenance that ain’t coming.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland