Found 3 items, similar to Exacting.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: exacting beret
English → English (WordNet) Definition: exacting exacting adj 1: having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; “fastidious microorganisms”; “certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements” [syn: fastidious] [ant: unfastidious] 2: severe and unremitting in making demands; “an exacting instructor”; “a stern disciplinarian”; “strict standards” [syn: stern, strict] 3: requiring precise accuracy; “an exacting job”; “became more exigent over his pronunciation” [syn: exigent]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Exacting Exacting \Ex*act"ing\, a. Oppressive or unreasonably severe in making demands or requiring the exact fulfillment of obligations; harsh; severe. “A temper so exacting.” --T. Arnold -- Ex*act"ing*ly, adv. -- Ex*act"ing*ness, n. [1913 Webster] Exact \Ex*act"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Exacted; p. pr. & vb. n. Exacting.] [From L. exactus, p. p. of exigere; or fr. LL. exactare: cf. OF. exacter. See Exact, a.] To demand or require authoritatively or peremptorily, as a right; to enforce the payment of, or a yielding of; to compel to yield or to furnish; hence, to wrest, as a fee or reward when none is due; -- followed by from or of before the one subjected to exaction; as, to exact tribute, fees, obedience, etc., from or of some one. [1913 Webster] He said into them, Exact no more than that which is appointed you. --Luke. iii. 13. [1913 Webster] Years of servise past From grateful souls exact reward at last --Dryden. [1913 Webster] My designs Exact me in another place. --Massinger. [1913 Webster]