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demanding

  • adjective
  • /dɪˈmɑːndɪŋ/

Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience.

Example

“This bike is built to withstand even the most demanding terrain.”

Other meanings

  1. Making great demands in terms of quality, quantity, accuracy or other criteria; difficult to satisfy.

    “Our wines will satisfy even the most demanding of connoisseurs.”

Related words

  • demandingly
  • demandingness
  • nondemanding
  • overdemanding

Where this comes from

This definition is adapted from “demanding” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.