Definition: requiring precise accuracy
Usage: an exacting job; became more exigent over his pronunciation
Similar words: demanding
Definition: requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill
Usage: found the job very demanding; a baby can be so demanding
Synonyms: insistent, instant, clamant, crying, exigent
Definition: demanding attention
Usage: clamant needs; a crying need; regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous- H.L.Mencken; insistent hunger; an instant need
Similar words: imperative
Definition: requiring attention or action
Usage: as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative; requests that grew more and more imperative