Exacting

Definitions: Exacting

Exacting

Adjective

1. (microbiology) having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures; "fastidious microorganisms"; "certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements".

2. Severe and unremitting in making demands; "an exacting instructor"; "a stern disciplinarian"; "strict standards".

3. Requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation".

Date "exacting" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Exacting

Synonyms: exigent (adj), fastidious (adj), stern (adj), strict (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: unfastidious (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Discontent	Adjective: discontented; dissatisfied; Verb: unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical.
Fastidiousness	Adjective: fastidious, nice, delicate, delicat, finical, finicky, demanding, meticulous, exacting, strict, anal, difficult, dainty, lickerish, squeamish, thin-skinned; squeasy, queasy; hard to please, difficult to please; querulous, particular, straitlaced, scrupulous; censorious; hypercritical; overcritical.
Greed	Greedy as a hog; overeager; voracious; ravenous, ravenous as a wolf; openmouthed, extortionate, exacting, sordid, alieni appetens; insatiable, insatiate; unquenchable, quenchless; omnivorous.
Severity	Adjective: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement; (ruthless) a; cruel; (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Exacting

English words defined with "exacting": exigent ♦ fastidious, finical, finicky, fussy ♦ Montem ♦ particular ♦ stern, strict ♦ unfastidious. (references)

Specialty definitions using "exacting": Ehud ♦ jet lube oil ♦ Organist ♦ Skin a Flint, synthetic ester lube. (references)

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

This guy's methodical, exacting, and worst of all, patient. (Se7en; writing credit: Andrew Kevin Walker)

In short, she is unprincipled, relentless, and exacting; idle, unproductive, and tedious; unimaginative, humorless, and vain; vindictive, undignified, and weak. (The Divorce of Lady X; writing credit: Gilbert Wakefield; Lajos Bir�)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Diana Wynne Jones: An Exciting and Exacting Wisdom (Studies in Children's Literature, 1) (reference) The Strength of an Exacting Passion: A Study of Acts 18:18-28:31 (Swindoll Study Guides) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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	Production. Airplane engines. An airplane engine under special test in a secluded and carefully guarded woodland area near a Midwest engine plant. If the engine meets the exacting requirement imposed by the test engineers, it will yield valuable technical.Credit: Library of Congress.		An exacting housekeeper.Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
EugFne Delacroix	If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Oh! I am not exacting.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Romania	With appropriate on-the-job training, local labor can perform well with new technologies and more exacting quality requirements. (references)
	Oman	The government has adopted the British "General National Vocational Qualification" (GNVQ) scheme for vocational training, but it lacks the exacting standards necessary to develop the skills and experience that an apprentice system could offer. (references)
	Afghanistan	By the mid-1980s, the tenacious Afghan resistance movement--aided by the United States, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and others--was exacting a high price from the Soviets, both militarily within Afghanistan and by souring the U.S.S.R.'s relations with much of the Western and Islamic world. (references)
Human Rights	Guinea	Many victims of crime fear that they may never receive justice because of judicial corruption and at times resorted to exacting their own form of retribution through vigilante violence. (references)
	Bangladesh	Some human rights groups express concern that a large number of allegations made under the act are false, since the nonbailable period of detention is an effective tool for exacting personal vengeance. (references)
Women	South Africa	Exacting a bride price ("lobola") also is a traditional practice of some ethnic groups. (references)
Worker Rights	South Africa	The courts generally deal with trafficking through deportations and fines, rather than exacting criminal penalties. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Exacting" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Exacting" is used about 196 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	196	21,868

Language		Translations for "exacting"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		kërkues (applicant, beseeching, exactor, invocatory, loud, particular, petitioner, postulant, prospector, searcher, solicitor, suitor, tracer), këmbëngulës (assiduous, difficult, dogged, emphatic, insistent, lingering, patient, persevering, persistent, pressing, rebellious, tenacious, unremitting, unyielding, up and coming, urgent), i vështirë (awkward, convoluted, deep, difficult, formidable, hairy, hard, intractable, Kittle, labored, laborious, laboured, onerous, painful, parlous, recondite, rough, scabrous, stiff, ticklish, toilful, trying). (various references)

Arabic		‏كثير المطالب (demanding, exigent), ‏متطلب براعة, ‏مرهق (arduous, burdened, dog tired, exhausted, exhausting, fatigued, fatiguing, grueling, laborious, onerous, operose, oppressed, oppressive, overtaxed, overtired, overworked, run down, strained, strenuous, stressed, tired, tiring, toil-worn, trying, wearing, wearisome, weary, worn, worn out). (various references)

Bulgarian		уморителен (exhausting, fatiguing, killing, tiresome, toilsome, wearing, weary, wearying), взискателен (choosey, exact, exigent, fastidious, nice, rigorous, strict), напрегнат (breathless, excited, intense, intent, laborious, nervy, overstrung, overwrought, strenuous, taut, tense, tight, uncool, uphill), придирчив (captious, carping, choosey, dainty, delicate, exceptive, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, finikin, nice, particular, pernickety, queasy, squeamish). (various references)

Chinese		苛 (severe), �'索 (Exacted). (various references)

Czech		přísný (austere, firm, hard, harsh, heavy, nice, rigid, rigorous, severe, sharp, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, tough, uncharitable), nároèný (arduous, challenging, demanding, discerning, discriminating, hard, serious, severe, sophisticated, stiff). (various references)

Finnish		vaativainen, vaativa, vaatelias (presumptuous, pretentious). (various references)

French		exigeant (exigent), strict (exact). (various references)

German		anspruchsvoll (advanced, ambitious, arrogant, challenging, demanding, discriminating, exactingly, fastidious, highbrow, nice, pretentious, selective, sophisticated, up-market). (various references)

Greek		απαιτητικόσ (exigent, pretentious, stickler for). (various references)

Hungarian		szigorú (austere, censorious, dour, hard and fast, harsh, inclement, meagre, poser, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, strait, strict, stringent), strapás (against the collar, slavish, sweaty). (various references)

Indonesian		beret (demanding). (various references)

Italian		esigente (demanding, exactingly, exigent, finicky, fussy, particular). (various references)

Korean		�"구 (Claim, Claiming, Demanding, request, Requesting, Requiring). (various references)

Manx		tooilleilagh (fatiguing, tiresome, tiring, toilsome, wearing, wearisome, wearying). (various references)

Norwegian		krevende. (various references)

Pig Latin		exactingay

Portuguese		hora exata. (various references)

Romanian		extenuant (exhausting, overwrought), exigent (fastidious, over-particular), sever (austere, close, dour, drastic, firm, frowning, grim, hard, harsh, keen, narrow, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, rugged, severe, stern, Strait, strict, unrelenting), pretenţios (affected, cavilling, choosey, exigent, fastidious, finical, important, inkhorn, particular, pretentious, prim, puffy, sophomoric), aspru (abrupt, abruptly, acid, acrimonious, biting, brisk, callous, clumsy, coarse, crisp, dour, drastic, earthy, edgy, firm, grating, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, hoarse, homespun, husky, ill, inclement, iron, iron-fisted, keen, lashing, nippy, obdurate, punitive, rasping, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, robust, rough, rugged, scabrous, severe, severely, shaggy, shy, smart, snappish, stern, stiff, Strait, strict, strong, stubborn, tough, unkind, violent, wiry). (various references)

Russian		чрезмерный (exceeding, excessive, exorbitant, extreme, fulsome, immoderate, inordinate, over, overextended, overweening, prodigal, profuse, prohibitive, redundant, supererogatory, superfluous, unconscionable, undue), требовательный (demanding, exigent, picky), изнуряющий (harassing). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		strog (austere, dour, finical, finicking, firm, grim, rigid, severe, stern, stiff, strait, strict, stringent). (various references)

Spanish		exigente (demanding, exigent, fussy, particular, strict). (various references)

Swedish		krävande (demanding, exigent, hard, taxing), fordrande (demanding, exigent). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งต้องการความสนใจมาก. (various references)

Turkish		zor beğenen (choosy, difficult, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, queasy), zor (arduous, baffling, constraint, crucial, cruel, difficult, force, formidable, hairy, hard, inconvenient, knotty, main, mean, might, rough, sticky, stiff, strain, tight, trickish, uneasy), zahmetli (demanding, drudging, exhausting, exhaustive, fatiguing, grueling, gruelling, incommodious, inconvenient, labored, laboring, laborious, laboured, labouring, lucubratory, onerous, painful, toilful, toilsome, troublesome, troublous, trying, uphill, with an effort), titiz (careful, choosy, cleanly, critical, dainty, demanding, difficult, exact, exigent, fastidious, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, hypercritical, jealous, jealous of, meticulous, niggling, niminy-piminy, particular, peevish, pernickety, picky, rigorous, scrupulous, squeamish, touchy), sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, grim, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), müşkülpesent (choosy, demanding, difficult, exigent, fastidious, particular, picky), hoşgörüsüz (adamant, austere, illiberal, impatient, intolerant, strict, uncomplaisant), detaylı (close, detailed, exhaustive, particular). (various references)

Turkmen		talapkдr (fussy, particular). (various references)

Ukranian		вимогливий (exigent, severe, strict), обтяжливий (burdensome, heavy, onerous, oppressive, weighty), настійний (imperative, imperious, instant). (various references)

Vietnamese		hay đòi hỏi quá quắt, đòi hỏi phải cố gắng..., đòi hỏi nhiều. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	fastidiosus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "exacting": exactingly, exactingness, exactingnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "exacting" (pronounced igza"kting)
5	-a" k t i ng	acting, attracting, counteracting, detracting, distracting, enacting, extracting, impacting, interacting, reacting, redacting, retracting, subcontracting, subtracting.
4	-k t i ng	abducting, addicting, affecting, afflicting, collecting, concocting, conducting, conflicting, connecting, constricting, constructing, contacting, contracting, contradicting, convicting, correcting, deducting, defecting, deflecting, depicting, destructing, detecting, directing, disconnecting, disrespecting, dissecting, districting, effecting, electing, erecting, evicting, expecting, infecting, inflicting, injecting, inspecting, instructing, interdicting, intersecting, neglecting, objecting, obstructing, overreacting, perfecting, predicting, projecting, prospecting, protecting, recollecting, reconnecting, reconstructing, redirecting, redistricting, reelecting, reflecting, rejecting, respecting, restricting, resurrecting, selecting, subjecting, superconducting, suspecting, unsuspecting.
3	-t i ng	abating, abbreviating, abdicating, abetting, aborting, abrogating, abutting, accelerating, accenting, accentuating, accepting, accommodating, accosting, accounting, accrediting, accumulating, acquitting, activating, adapting, adjudicating, adjusting, administrating, admitting, adopting, advocating, affiliating, aggravating, agitating, airlifting, alerting, alienating, alleviating, allocating, allotting, alternating, amounting, annotating, anticipating, appointing, appreciating, appropriating, approximating, arbitrating, arresting, articulating, assassinating, assaulting, asserting, assimilating, assisting, associating, attempting, attesting, attributing, auditing, augmenting, authenticating, automating, averting, awaiting, babysitting, backbiting, baiting, balloting, bankrupting, batting, beating, befitting, begetting, belting, benefiting, benefitting, berating, besetting, besting, betting, biting, bitting, blacklisting, blanketing, blasting, bloating, bloodletting, blunting, boasting, boating, bolting, boosting, booting, boycotting, breasting, broadcasting, budgeting, bullfighting, bunting, bursting, busting, butting, calculating, captivating, carpeting, carting, castigating, casting, castrating, catapulting, cavorting, celebrating, cementing, chanting, charting, chatting, cheating, chlorinating, circulating, circumventing, citing, clotting, coagulating, coasting, coating, coexisting, cohabiting, collaborating, combating, combatting, comforting, commemorating, commenting, committing, communicating, commuting, compensating, competing, complementing, completing, complicating, complimenting, composting, computing, concentrating, confiscating, confronting, congratulating, consenting, consisting, consolidating, consorting, constituting, consulting, consummating, contaminating, contemplating, contesting, contrasting, contributing, converting, cooperating, coordinating, copycatting, correlating, corroborating, corrupting, costing, Counterfeiting, counting, courting, crafting, crating, creating, crediting, cresting, culminating, cultivating, cutting, darting, dating, daunting, debating, debilitating, decaffeinating, decanting, decelerating, decimating, decorating, dedicating, defaulting, defeating, deflating, defrosting, degenerating, delegating, deleting, deliberating, delighting, delineating, delisting, demonstrating, denigrating, denting, departing, depleting, deporting, depositing, deprecating, depreciating, deregulating, deserting, designating, deteriorating, detonating, devastating, devoting, dictating, dieting, differentiating, digesting, diluting, disappointing, disconcerting, discounting, discrediting, discriminating, disgusting, disintegrating, disorienting, dispiriting, disputing, disquieting, disrupting, disseminating, dissenting, dissipating, distorting, distributing, diverting, divesting, documenting, domesticating, dominating, donating, doting, dotting, doubting, drafting, drifting, duplicating, dusting, eating, editing, educating, elaborating, elating, electroplating, elevating, eliciting, eliminating, emanating, emigrating, emitting, emulating, encapsulating, enchanting, encrusting, enlisting, entrusting, enunciating, equating, equivocating, eradicating, erupting, escalating, escorting, estimating, evacuating, evaluating, evaporating, everlasting, exacerbating, exaggerating, exalting, exasperating, excavating, excepting, exciting, excoriating, excruciating, executing, exempting, exerting, exhausting, exhibiting, exhilarating, exhorting, existing, exiting, exonerating, expediting, experimenting, exploiting, exporting, extenuating, exterminating, extorting, extraditing, extrapolating, fabricating, facilitating, fainting, fascinating, fasting, faulting, feasting, fermenting, ferreting, Fetting, fidgeting, fighting, fingerprinting, firefighting, fitting, flaunting, fleeting, flirting, flitting, floating, flouting, fluctuating, fomenting, footing, footnoting, forecasting, forfeiting, forgetting, formulating, fragmenting, fretting, fronting, frosting, fruiting, frustrating, generating, getting, gifting, glinting, gloating, graduating, grafting, granting, grating, gravitating, greeting, gritting, grouting, grunting, gunfighting, gusting, gutting, gyrating, hallucinating, halting, handwriting, harvesting, Hasting, hating, haunting, heating, hesitating, highlighting, hinting, hitting, hoisting, homeporting, hosting, humiliating, hunting, hurting, hydrogenating, igniting, illuminating, illustrating, imitating, imparting, impersonating, implanting, implementing, implicating, importing, imprinting, inaugurating, incapacitating, incarcerating, incinerating, inciting, incorporating, incriminating, incubating, indicating, indicting, infatuating, infighting, infiltrating, inflating, infuriating, ingesting, ingratiating, inhabiting, inheriting, inhibiting, initiating, innovating, inserting, insinuating, insisting, instigating, instituting, insulating, insulting, integrating, intercepting, interesting, interpreting, interrogating, interrupting, intimidating, intoxicating, inundating, invalidating, inventing, investigating, investing, invigorating, inviting, irritating, isolating, jetting, jolting, jousting, jutting, kiting, knitting, lactating, lambasting, lamenting, laminating, lasting, legislating, letting, levitating, liberating, lifting, lighting, limiting, liquidating, listing, litigating, locating, looting, lubricating, lusting, malting, mandating, manifesting, manipulating, marketing, marting, masturbating, mating, matting, mediating, meditating, meeting, melting, migrating, minting, misappropriating, misinterpreting, misrepresenting, misstating, mistreating, mitigating, moderating, molesting, molting, moonlighting, motivating, mounting, mutating, mutilating, muting, nauseating, navigating, necessitating, negating, negotiating, nesting, netting, nitrating, nominating, nonbiting, nonoperating, nonsporting, nonvoting, noting, Nutting, obliterating, obviating, officiating, offsetting, omitting, operating, opting, orbiting, orchestrating, originating, oscillating, ousting, Outfitting, outing, outwitting, overeating, overestimating, overheating, overshooting, overstating, painting, panting, parachuting, parenting, participating, parting, pasting, patenting, patting, penetrating, percolating, permeating, permitting, perpetrating, perpetuating, persecuting, persisting, perverting, petting, picketing, piloting, pinpointing, pirating, pitting, placating, planting, plating, plotting, plummeting, pocketing, pointing, polluting, pontificating, populating, porting, posting, pouting, precipitating, predominating, preempting, preexisting, presenting, preventing, printing, procrastinating, profiting, prognosticating, prohibiting, proliferating, promoting, prompting, promulgating, propagating, prosecuting, protesting, pulsating, purporting, putting, quieting, quilting, quitting, quoting, radiating, rafting, ranting, ratcheting, rating, reactivating, readjusting, reallocating, reasserting, rebutting, recalculating, recanting, recasting, reciprocating, reciting, reconstituting, recounting, recreating, recruiting, recuperating, redecorating, redistributing, reevaluating, refitting, refuting, regenerating, regretting, regulating, rehabilitating, reigniting, reincorporating, reinstating, reinstituting, reinterpreting, reinventing, reinvesting, reinvigorating, reiterating, rejuvenating, relating, relegating, relenting, relocating, remarketing, renegotiating, renovating, renting, repainting, repatriating, repeating, replanting, replicating, reporting, representing, reprinting, repudiating, requesting, rerouting, resenting, resisting, resonating, resorting, restarting, restating, resting, resubmitting, resulting, resuscitating, retaliating, retesting, retreating, retrofitting, reuniting, reverberating, reverting, revisiting, revolting, rewriting, rioting, riveting, roasting, rocketing, rooting, rotating, rotting, rusting, salivating, salting, saluting, saturating, scapegoating, scouting, sculpting, seating, sedating, segregating, separating, setting, shafting, sheeting, shifting, shooting, shoplifting, shorting, shouting, shunting, shutting, sifting, sighting, simulating, siting, sitting, skating, skirting, skyrocketing, skywriting, slanting, slighting, slitting, slotting, smarting, smelting, snorting, soliciting, somersaulting, songwriting, sorting, speculating, spitting, splitting, sporting, spotlighting, spotting, spouting, sprinting, sprouting, spurting, squatting, squinting, squirting, stagnating, starting, stating, stimulating, stipulating, strutting, submitting, subordinating, substituting, subverting, suffocating, suggesting, supplanting, supplementing, supporting, surmounting, sweating, Sweeting, syndicating, tabulating, tainting, targeting, tasting, taunting, telecommuting, telemarketing, tempting, tenting, terminating, testing, thermosetting, thrusting, thwarting, ticketing, tilting, titillating, toasting, tolerating, tormenting, toting, touting, translating, transmitting, transplanting, transporting, treating, trotting, trumpeting, trusting, twisting, typecasting, typesetting, Typewriting, undercutting, underestimating, underreporting, understating, underwriting, undulating, unexciting, uninteresting, uninviting, uniting, unrelenting, unremitting, unseating, unstinting, unwitting, updating, uplifting, uprooting, upsetting, urinating, vacating, vacillating, validating, vaulting, ventilating, venting, vesting, vetting, vibrating, violating, visiting, vomiting, voting, wafting, waiting, wanting, wasting, weighting, weightlifting, wetting, whiting, wildcatting, wilting, witting, wresting, writing, yachting.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-t-x"
	-1 letter: inexact.
	-2 letters: acetin, acting, axenic, centai, eating, enatic, incage, ingate, taxing.
	-3 letters: acing, actin, agent, antic, axing, axite, enact, entia, exact, genic, giant, tenia, tinea, tinge, xenia, xenic.
	-4 letters: acne, agin, ante, anti, cage, cain, cane, cant, cate, cent, cine, cite, etic, etna, exit, gaen, gain, gait, gane, gate, gent, geta, gien, gnat, neat.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-g-i-n-t-x"
	+2 letters: exactingly, excavating, execrating, extracting.
	+3 letters: excoriating, exculpating, explicating, exsiccating, extricating.
	+4 letters: detoxicating, exacerbating, exactingness, excogitating, excogitation, excruciating.
	+5 letters: excogitations, expectorating.
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