exacting
pronunciation
How to pronounce exacting in British English:
UK [ɪɡˈzæktɪŋ]
How to pronounce exacting in American English:
US [ɪɡˈzæktɪŋ]
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- Adjective:
- having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
- severe and unremitting in making demands
- requiring precise accuracy
Word Origin
- exacting (adj.)
- "very demanding, severe in requirement," 1580s, present participle adjective from exact (v.).
Example
- 1. Neither reaches the exacting standard of proof that particle physicists require to accept a result unequivocally
- 2. The prime minister is now expected to unveil a more exacting policy based on these recommendations before calling an election later this year .
- 3. As a result , prince william is very exacting in what he will and won 't do .
- 4. But by the exacting standards of single chinese women , it seems , mr. wang lacks that bankable attribute known as real property .
- 5. He occupied the entire fourth floor of his building . Rooms upon rooms circled the courtyard and over the years he fitted them out to his exacting specifications .