demanding

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *de

Proto-Indo-European *-h₁

Proto-Indo-European *déh₁

Proto-Italic *dē

Latin dē

Latin dē-

Proto-Indo-European *(s)meh₂-der.

Proto-Italic *manus

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁tder.

Proto-Italic *-ðō

Proto-Italic *manuðō

Latin mandō

Latin demandāre

Old French demanderbor.

Middle English demaunden

English demand

English -ing

English demanding

From demand + -ing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈmɑːndɪŋ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /dəˈmændɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːndɪŋ, -ændɪŋ

Adjective

demanding (comparative more demanding, superlative most demanding)

1. Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience.

   Synonyms: challenging, exigent, taxing, fussy

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

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

   Synonyms: exacting, open-mouthed; see also Thesaurus:bossy

   Near-synonyms: see Thesaurus:fastidious

   Our wines will satisfy even the most demanding of connoisseurs.

   • 1982, Shalamar, “A Night to Remember”, in Friends:

     When you love someone, it's natural, not demanding / And that's one thing I'm proud to say I found in you / I'm so glad we reached an understanding / Now I know my heart is safe with you, ooh

Antonyms

• undemanding

Derived terms

• demandingly
• demandingness
• nondemanding
• overdemanding

Translations

requiring much endurance, strength, or patience

• Bulgarian: напрегнат (bg) (napregnat)
• Catalan: exigent (ca)
• Czech: náročný (cs)
• Finnish: vaativa (fi)
• French: éprouvant (fr), exigeant (fr)
• Galician: esixente
• Greek: απαιτητικός (el) (apaititikós)
• Hungarian: megerőltető (hu), nehéz (hu), fárasztó (hu), munkaigényes (hu)
• Japanese: きつい (ja) (kitsui)
• Norman: exigeant
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: krevende (no)

• Polish: wymagający (pl)
• Russian: тре́бующий уси́лий (trébujuščij usílij), напряжённый (ru) (naprjažónnyj)
• Spanish: exigente (es)

making great demands; difficult to satisfy

• Bulgarian: взискателен (bg) (vziskatelen), придирчив (bg) (pridirčiv)
• Dutch: veeleisend (nl)
• Finnish: vaatelias (fi), vaativa (fi), tarkka (fi)
• French: exigeant (fr)
• Galician: esixente
• German: anspruchsvoll (de), wählerisch (de)
• Greek: απαιτητικός (el) (apaititikós)
• Hungarian: igényes (hu), szigorú (hu), nagyigényű (hu), kényes (hu)
• Polish: wymagający (pl)
• Russian: тре́бовательный (ru) (trébovatelʹnyj), взыска́тельный (ru) (vzyskátelʹnyj)
• Spanish: exigente (es)
• Ukrainian: вимогли́вий (vymohlývyj), вибагли́вий (vybahlývyj)

Verb

demanding

1. present participle and gerund of demand

Noun

demanding (plural demandings)

1. The act of making a demand.
   • 2012, Janet Haslam, Rachel's Daughter:

     She had had enough whimperings and demandings this morning to last her a week, and her face hardened as a tear rolled down Sarah's cheek.

Anagrams

• maddening