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

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

From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026

It would hold me together until my novel was finished and I was ready to look for something more demanding.

From "Kindred" by Octavia Butler