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exacting

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adjective

rigid or severe in demands or requirements: an exacting teacher.

requiring close application or attention: an exacting task.

given to or characterized by exaction; extortionate.

Origin:
1575–85; exact + -ing²

Related forms

ex·act·ing·ly, adverb

ex·act·ing·ness, noun

non·ex·act·ing, adjective

non·ex·act·ing·ly, adverb

non·ex·act·ing·ness, noun

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o·ver·ex·act·ing, adjective

su·per·ex·act·ing, adjective

un·ex·act·ing, adjective

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Example Sentences

Widespread hunger remains intractable throughout the world and is exacting a high human toll.

American courts take exacting precautions to avoid convicting an innocent person of a crime.

As better technology enables more exacting experiments, phenomena that were once.

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Widespread hunger remains intractable throughout the world and is exacting a high human toll.

American courts take exacting precautions to avoid convicting an innocent person of a crime.

As better technology enables more exacting experiments, phenomena that were once.

Japan's notoriously exacting work ethic takes a toll on the overall health of the population, particularly men.

Philosophical leanings might seem impossible to pin town with exacting word problems.

The field of psychoneuroimmunology, although based on exacting research, has had a hard birth.

Although exacting in their requirements, forms offered by specialists are among the choicest of rock garden plants.

The drawback of this is that individual cases are unique, so it is difficult to come up with exacting methods".

Although previous studies had failed to find a clear-cut relationship, new, more exacting.

Letterpress is an industrial process, as exacting and personal as you want it to be.

The world of temporary managers is surely full of people who possess his exacting standards without his self-awareness.

It's a job that combines the need for exacting detail with a certain amount of strange physical work-swimming underwater.

So the moral of the story is to screw other people over and depend on them not exacting revenge.

Each of his models is based on a real boat and done to exacting scale.

Strawberries have somewhat more exacting requirements.

Dunham works out details with deliberate, exacting precision.

Ohsawa favors an extremely exacting technique and a style resembling children's book illustration.

But solar-thermal electricity faces exacting challenges.

Wisconsin, using space-age technology and exacting specifications.

However, this too can be shown true through exacting cost accountability.

Lai can be an exacting boss, but he'll gladly sink a fortune into a business if he believes in it.

Were it not for the exacting demands of her art and the claims of society and.

But when government troops stopped some guerrillas from exacting tolls on traffic near their main.

Perhaps someday, we'll have drugs that can really amplify intellectual functions, while exacting a delayed price.

It also meets the exacting specifications of exhausted hacker tourists.

It is outraged nature exacting revenge for attempted defiance of nature's laws.

And there is a sacrosanct predominance of exacting rules, which ultimately strangles the country.

Feel free to continue enjoying my exacting specifications.

In it, exacting craftsmanship has the chill of the mortician's art.

Some states had exacting supervisory standards for these firms.

Consequently their proposals have a component of exacting revenge from the perceived culprits.

Collins, for all his exacting approaches to time management and research, has been blessed with something he cannot control:.

Moreover, they are exacting revenge if they do not get what they want.

Physics is an exacting science, bound by immutable laws that are true throughout our universe.

The process of canonization remains exacting and complicated, involving a thorough investigation of a person's life and writings.

Then there is the long list of exacting technical and commercial specifications aviation biofuels will need to meet.

True democracy requires exacting measures to ensure that every vote is counted.

It has taken manufacturers decades to sort out each element in this exacting process.

Gardner is correct that few tasks in life require the completion of math problems under exacting time constraints.

Williams spent more than a year exacting his revenge against junk mailers.

Colleagues knew her as smart, ambitious and exacting foreign editor, a news executive who was both admired and feared.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

adjective

strictly accurate or correct: an exact likeness; an exact description.

precise, as opposed to approximate: the exact sum; the exact date.

admitting of no deviation, as laws or discipline; strict or rigorous.

capable of the greatest precision: exact instruments.

characterized by or using strict accuracy: an exact thinker.

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Mathematics. (of a differential equation) noting that the collection of all terms, equated to zero, is an exact differential.

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verb (used with object)

to call for, demand, or require: to exact respect from one's children.

to force or compel the payment, yielding, or performance of: to exact money; to exact tribute from a conquered people.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English exacten (v.) < Latin exāctus (past participle of exigere drive out, thrust out), equivalent to ex- ex-¹ + ag(ere) to drive + -tus past participle suffix

Related forms

ex·act·a·ble, adjective

ex·act·er, ex·ac·tor, noun

ex·act·ness, noun

non·ex·act·a·ble, adjective

pre·ex·act, adjective, verb (used with object)

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qua·si-ex·act, adjective

qua·si-ex·act·ly, adverb

un·ex·act·ed, adjective

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Synonyms
3. rigid, severe, unbending. 5. methodical, careful, punctilious, demanding, scrupulous. 8. wring. See extract.

Antonyms
1, 2. imprecise.

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World English Dictionary

exacting (ɪɡˈzæktɪŋ)

—*adj*
	making rigorous or excessive demands: an exacting job

ex'actingly

—*adv*

ex'actingness

—n

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Word Origin & History

exact

"precise, rigorous, accurate," 1530s, from L. exactus, pp. of exigere, lit. "to drive or force out," also "demand, finish, measure," from ex- "out" + agere "drive, lead, act" (see act). The verb (late 14c., implied in exaction) is older in English and represents the literal

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sense of the Latin. Related: Exacted.

exacting

"too demanding," 1580s, prp. adj. from exact.

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