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more demanding

ADJECTIVE

challenging, urgent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

ambitious critical difficult exacting exhausting hard onerous pressing strict stringent taxing tough troublesome trying

STRONG

nagging wearing

WEAK

backbreaker bothersome clamorous dictatorial exigent fussy grievous imperious importunate insistent oppressive querulous weighty

Antonyms

STRONGEST

easy facile flexible inexact mild nice simple tolerant trivial uncertain unimportant yielding

WEAK

unchallenging undemanding

Example Sentences

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But as artificial intelligence grows more demanding, the limits of electron-based hardware are becoming harder to ignore.

From Science Daily • May 19, 2026

That immediate closeness — and a shared love of pizza crunch, a battered pizza popular in Scotland — allowed the actors to take on the more demanding aspects of their roles.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2026

"You're just sort of thrown into the deep end or you start off small and then it gets sort of more and more demanding."

From BBC • Mar. 31, 2026

Democratic systems depend on something more demanding: the ability to tolerate disagreement, engage with complexity and distinguish between what feels true and what is demonstrably so.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

But the stairs in the house were steep, and the busy schedule of a presidential household was far more demanding than Mount Vernon.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis