demanding
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[edit]demanding (comparative more demanding, superlative most demanding)
- Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience.
- Synonyms: challenging, exigent, taxing
- This bike is built to withstand even the most demanding terrain.
- Making great demands in terms of quality, quantity, accuracy or other criteria; difficult to satisfy.
- Synonyms: exacting; see also Thesaurus:bossy
- Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:fastidious
- Our wines will satisfy even the most demanding of connoisseurs.
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[edit]requiring much endurance, strength, or patience
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making great demands; difficult to satisfy
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Verb
[edit]demanding
- present participle and gerund of demand