Definitions for exacting

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exacting ex·act·ing

Spelling: [ig-zak-ting]

IPA: /ɪgˈzæk tɪŋ/

Exacting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in exacting (acegintx).

Definitions for exacting

adjective

1. rigid or severe in demands or requirements:
2. requiring close application or attention:
3. given to or characterized by exaction; extortionate.
4. strictly accurate or correct:
5. precise, as opposed to approximate:
6. admitting of no deviation, as laws or discipline; strict or rigorous.
7. capable of the greatest precision:
8. characterized by or using strict accuracy:
9. Mathematics. (of a differential equation) noting that the collection of all terms, equated to zero, is an exact differential.

verb (used with object)

1. to call for, demand, or require:
2. to force or compel the payment, yielding, or performance of:

Origin of exacting

First recorded in 1575-85; exact + -ing²

Examples for exacting

But legal justice, no less moral or exacting, is something else.

I wish Society was not so arbitrary, I wish it was not so exacting—Bird, be quiet!'

But exacting concessions from the mediator is not the point.

They drank to the health of this exacting, loyal maiden, and Cross gave her name.

Qualification is exacting, and a majority of the teams that do qualify are from the West.

Is there a dramatic art--exacting, difficult, supreme--or is there not?

Munro is a great writer; a wise writer; a free and brave, exacting, transformative, generous, and profoundly discreet writer.

In fact, the fairies in Cymric land are among the most exacting of any known.

Brazier was feared for her ferocious tempers and respected for her exacting standards.

It never occurred to her that she could have put off this exacting job.