| 单词 | demanding |
| 释义 | demanding (once / 535 pages) adj Something that's demanding calls for more work or skill than the typical task. Babysitting might seem like an easy job, but depending on the kids it can actually be incredibly demanding. A demanding job might require a lot of physical work, like farming, or a lot of patience and diplomacy, like being a teacher or a marriage counselor. When a person is described as demanding, it usually means that he or she has very high standards or is especially hard to satisfy. The word comes from the Old French demander, "to request or demand," by way of the Latin demandare, "entrust." WORD FAMILYdemanding: demandingly, undemanding+/demand: demanded, demander, demanding, demands/demander: demanders/undemanding: undemandingly USAGE EXAMPLES“Six years demanding immediate repeal, and no alternative to replace it,” Mr. Hoyer said. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) After all, many progressives reacted to Brexit and to Trump by demanding more rather than less state control over the citizenry. The Guardian(Jan 01, 2017) Hundreds of thousands of South Koreans ushered in the new year with a massive protest demanding the resignation of disgraced President Park Geun-hye. Time(Jan 01, 2017) adj requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill found the job very demanding a baby can be so demanding Syn|Ant exacting, exigent requiring precise accuracy hard to please, hard-to-please(of persons) "his father was a hard-to-please taskmaster" needydemanding or needing attention, affection, or reassurance to an excessive degree rigorous, stringent, tightdemanding strict attention to rules and procedures exacting, stern, strictsevere and unremitting in making demands difficult, hardnot easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure undemanding requiring little if any patience or effort or skill lenientnot strict easygoingrelaxed and informal in attitude or standards lightdemanding little effort; not burdensome unexactingnot rigorous easyposing no difficulty; requiring little effort |
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