demanding

Speech parts

1. demanding - Adjective

2. demanding - Verb

Meaning

of Demand

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

difficult hard strict tough rigorous strenuous meticulous arduous exacting laborious burdensome onerous challenging taxing particular
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Antonyms

undemanding royal light simple princely easy
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Phrases with the word

demanding situation demanding task demanding attention demanding assignment extremely demanding demanding job

Anagrams

maddening

Examples

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint. Christopher Hitchens

Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else. Richard Koch

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces. Terry Pratchett

My choices are rejections, since there is no other way, but what I reject is more numerous, denser, more demanding than before. A little poem, a sigh, at the cost of indescribable losses. Wisława Szymborska

A man may lose his goods for want of demanding them. Spanish Proverb

A man may lose what are his clearest rights by not demanding them. Latin Proverb

Close letter words and terms

demandee demander demandeur demanding assignment demanding attention demanding circumstances