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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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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

Improving energy efficiency is especially important as artificial intelligence systems grow more demanding.

From Science Daily • Apr. 18, 2026

The Gulf offers useful insights, but Ukraine is the more demanding laboratory.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026

After years defying gravity, Wicked star Cynthia Erivo has traded the shimmering world of Oz for something darker and far more demanding.

From BBC • Feb. 18, 2026

She was more demanding than any of the girls or their parents expected—she made her players run for thirty-five minutes and do sets of sit-ups, push-ups, and leg lifts before each practice.

From "Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference" by Warren St. John