exacting Definition

fastidious, strict, demanding, exigent, stern, rigorous, stringent, intense, discerning, arduous, rigid, onerous, intensive, harsh, picky, ambitious, challenging, requiring, strenuous, difficult, tough, high, severe, tight, aggressive, hard, binding, meticulous, uncompromising, scrupulous, unforgiving, precise, punctilious, unmerciful, ruthless, painstaking, satisfying, pitiless, machinelike, obsessive, unrelenting, dauntingly, finicky, merciless, assiduous, implacable, intricate, unerring, unsentimental, toilsome, pedantic, insistent, unsurpassed, excruciating, adamantine, remorseless, laborious, unvarying, maniacal, brutal, exquisite, artful, relentless, abasement, sadistic, masterly, austere, ferocious, insatiable, brutish, grueling, condign, impeccable, unsparing, steely, idiosyncratic, subjective, sophisticated, unexcelled, unshowy, peerless, unbendable, monomaniacal, pernickety, unimpeachable, sanguinary, voracious, unsurpassable, torturous, unbending, dostoevskian, immaculate, tedious, inscrutable, unflinching, saturnine, refined, procrustean, dextrous, esoteric,