exacting
exacting — adjective
- exactingpositive
- more exactingcomparative
- most exactingsuperlative
1. requiring a great amount of effort, careful attention, and high standards of acc
requiring a great amount of effort, careful attention, and high standards of accuracy or quality — used to describe a task, standard, job, or set of conditions that leave little room for error or shortcuts.
Professor Okafor gave her students an exacting assignment that required weeks of library research.
exacting + assignment / task
The chef's exacting standards meant every plate was checked before leaving the kitchen.
exacting standards
Training for the Paris marathon was exacting, with daily runs of at least fifteen kilometres.
Restoring the old temple required exacting work that combined carpentry, painting, and historical research.
Yuki found the laboratory's safety protocols to be exacting but completely necessary.
- demanding
More general; implies requiring effort but not necessarily precision. 'Exacting' adds the nuance of detail-orientation.
- rigorous
Emphasises strictness and thoroughness; common in academic and scientific contexts.
- stringent
Emphasises strict rules or limits; used for regulations, standards, or controls.
- painstaking
Describes the care taken by a person rather than the nature of the task itself.
- undemanding
Requiring little effort or attention.
- lenient
Applied to standards or rules that are not strict.
用法筆記
More formal than 'demanding'. Frequently used with nouns like standard, requirement, task, work, condition, or test. Often implies precision and attention to detail rather than just physical effort.