Synonyms and Antonyms of exacting
- he was shocked when his normally exacting supervisor complimented him on a job well done
choosy (or choosey), dainty, delicate, demanding, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussbudgety, fussy, nice, old-maidish, particular, pernickety [chiefly British], persnickety, picky
hyperfastidious, overdemanding, ultrafastidious
discerning, discriminating, selective
captious, carping, caviling (or cavilling), critical, faultfinding, hypercritical, overcritical
careful, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulous
queasy (also queazy), squeamish
- the prep school's exacting standards for admission
close, conscientious, exact, fussy, meticulous, painstaking, punctilious, scrupulous, undeviating
adamant, adamantine, determined, dogged, firm, relentless, resolved, single-minded, steadfast, stubborn, tenacious, unbending, unflinching
immovable, implacable, unappeasable, unrelenting, unsparing, unyielding
austere, demanding, flinty, grim, hard, hardened, hard-hearted, harsh, ironbound, severe, stern, tough
- the new recruits had to adjust themselves to the exacting discipline of military life
arduous, Augean, backbreaking, challenging, demanding, difficult, effortful, formidable, grueling (or gruelling), hard, heavy