DEMANDING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does demanding mean? 

• DEMANDING (adjective)
  The adjective DEMANDING has 1 sense:

1. requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill

  Familiarity information: DEMANDING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMANDING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill

Context example:

a baby can be so demanding

Similar:

exacting; exigent (requiring precise accuracy)

hard-to-please; hard to please ((of persons) fussy and demanding)

needy (demanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree)

rigorous; stringent; tight (demanding strict attention to rules and procedures)

exacting; stern; strict (severe and unremitting in making demands)

Also:

difficult; hard (not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure)

Antonym:

undemanding (requiring little if any patience or effort or skill)

 Context examples 

He fled away to Grey Beaver, behind whose protecting legs he crouched when the bitten boy and the boy's family came, demanding vengeance.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She had a way of looking one in the eyes and demanding the truth, and thus she looked at me as she asked the question.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

François was stern, demanding instant obedience, and by virtue of his whip receiving instant obedience; while Dave, who was an experienced wheeler, nipped Buck’s hind quarters whenever he was in error.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Meg was entertaining Sallie Gardiner in the parlor, when the door flew open and a floury, crocky, flushed, and disheveled figure appeared, demanding tartly...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

On this day, you may encounter a difficult client who uses a scorched-earth method of negotiation, demanding you follow his rules or he’s walking out.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

In a vote, on the 4 September 2008 the EP asked the Council to be more demanding on exposure levels this is proof that the subject leaves no one indifferent.

(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)

Stamenković et al found oxygen levels throughout Mars would be high enough for the least demanding aerobic (oxygen using) microbes, for all the brines they considered, and all the methods of calculation.

(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)

While pilots rely on radio signals, advanced computations and other tools to keep them on course during strong crosswinds, birds can naturally navigate these demanding conditions — in environments with little visibility.

(Scientists discover how birds navigate crosswinds, National Science Foundation)

Though the object is 300 kilometres across, it is currently a colossal four billion kilometres from Earth, making gathering data from its dark, carbon-rich surface a demanding scientific challenge.

(Exiled Asteroid Discovered in Outer Reaches of Solar System, ESO)

There was no unfinished story waiting his hand, no new story demanding articulation.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)