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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

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more demanding

One example is the mitochondrion, which helps provide the energy needed to support more demanding forms of life.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026

Hemani responds, whether intentionally or not, by making analogical reasoning more demanding rather than less.

From Slate ● Jun. 26, 2026

The declaration will make it possible "to be far more demanding" towards digital platforms and "leave them no choice but to change their way of working".

From Barron's ● May 29, 2026

DeepSeek also launched V4-Flash, a cheaper and faster version that holds its own against the V4-Pro on simpler tasks but trails on more demanding ones.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Not only were they studying as though they had exams every day, but the lessons themselves had become more demanding than ever before.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling