exacting

/ig'zæktiɳ/

Thân thiện

The instructor sets exacting standards for the laboratory procedure.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Requiring precise accuracy or great care: Describes tasks, standards, or conditions that demand meticulous attention to detail and flawless execution.
   • Severe and unremitting in making demands: Characterizes a person, such as a teacher or supervisor, who is very strict and insists on high standards without compromise.
   • Having complicated or specific requirements: Used in technical contexts (e.g., biology) to describe organisms that need very particular conditions to survive or grow.

Examples of Usage

• Adjective:
  • Surgery is an exacting profession that requires steady hands and intense concentration.
  • The exacting coach pushed the team to their limits during every practice.
  • This orchid species is exacting in its requirements for humidity and light.

Advanced Usage

• "to be exacting in one's standards": to have very high and demanding criteria.
  • The master chef was exacting in his standards for ingredient freshness.
• "to make exacting demands on": to place stringent requirements on someone or something.
  • The new software makes exacting demands on the computer's processor.

Variants and Related Words

• Exact (verb): To demand and obtain something, typically a payment or action.
  • The king exacted tribute from the conquered provinces.
• Exactitude (noun): The quality of being precise or accurate.
  • The success of the experiment depended on the exactitude of the measurements.
• Exactingness (noun): The quality of being demanding or requiring great care.
  • The exactingness of the task was understood by all team members.

Synonyms

• Demanding: Requiring much skill, effort, or attention.
• Stringent: (Of regulations or requirements) strict, precise, and exacting.
• Fastidious: Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail.
• Rigorous: Extremely thorough, exhaustive, or accurate.

Antonyms

• Undemanding: Requiring little effort or care.
• Lenient: (Of rules or a person) more permissive or tolerant than strict.
• Easygoing: Relaxed and tolerant in attitude or manner.

Related Phrases

• An exacting task/job: A piece of work that is very demanding and requires precision.
  • Proofreading legal documents is an exacting task.
• Under exacting conditions: In a situation where the standards or environmental requirements are very strict.
  • The bacteria were cultivated under exacting conditions in the laboratory.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. requiring precise accuracy
   • an exacting job
   • became more exigent over his pronunciation
2. severe and unremitting in making demands
   • an exacting instructor
   • a stern disciplinarian
   • strict standards
3. having complicated nutritional requirements; especially growing only in special artificial cultures
   • fastidious microorganisms
   • certain highly specialized xerophytes are extremely exacting in their requirements

Từ đồng nghĩa

• exigent
• stern
• strict
• fastidious