Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: exacting
IPA transcription: [ɪɡz'æktɪŋ]
Pronunciations of exacting
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adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: exigent, exacting
    Meaning: requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation"
  • Synonyms: stern, strict, exacting
    Meaning: severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards"
  • Synonyms: fastidious, exacting
    Meaning: having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements"
Usage examples
  • My teachers, Faye and Lieutenant Baldwin, have been most exacting, but that I wanted.
  • Later he came to us to recuperate, and was the most exacting and profane man we ever waited on.
  • I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child--though equally dependent and friendless--Mrs.
  • A heavy man as well as a big one, he was not so amusing and so fluent a talker out of school as his predecessor, nor, as we were delighted to discover, so exacting and tyrannical in school.
  • I grew impatient: a restless movement or two, and an eager and exacting glance fastened on his face, conveyed the feeling to him as effectually as words could have done, and with less trouble.
  • She tried to pierce the distance far away, beyond which lay the shores of France: that relentless and stern France which was exacting her pound of flesh, the blood-tax from the noblest of her sons.
  • I have meditated upon every possible expedient that might tend to your happiness, ere I fixed upon exacting from you a compliance which I am convinced will be most painful to you; but I can satisfy myself in none.
  • This species of inequality consists in the different privileges, which some men enjoy, to the prejudice of others, such as that of being richer, more honoured, more powerful, and even that of exacting obedience from them.
  • In Emily Dickinson's exacting hands, the especial, intrinsic fitness of a particular order of words might not be sacrificed to anything virtually extrinsic; and her verses all show a strange cadence of inner rhythmical music.
  • So Frithiof became an exile, and a wanderer on the face of the earth. For many years he lived the life of a pirate or viking, exacting tribute from other ships or sacking them if they would not pay tribute; for this occupation in the days of Frithiof was considered wholly respectable.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Hubble Space Telescope, License CC BY-SA 4.0