exacting
English
adj
Definitions
- Making excessive demands; difficult to satisfy.
- (of an action, task, etc) Requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
- (of a person or organization) Characterized by exaction.
Etymology
Suffix from English exact.
Origin
English
exact
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- exact English
- exactable English
- exactamundo English
- exacter English
- exactest English
- exacteth English
- exactification English
- exactify English
- exactingly English
- exactingness English
- exactly English
- exactment English
- exactness English
- exactor English
- nonexact English
- overexact English
- unexact English
- unexacting English
- exactus Latin