Demanding
Demanding adjective - Hard to please.
Usage example: will play before a demanding audience of music critics, who are not easily impressed
Fastidious is a synonym for demanding in discriminating topic. In some cases you can use "Fastidious" instead an adjective "Demanding".
Fastidious
Fastidious adjective - Hard to please.
Usage example: he is very fastidious about how he arranges his music collection, and woe to anyone who dares to mess around with it
Demanding is a synonym for fastidious in pedantic topic. You can use "Demanding" instead an adjective "Fastidious", if it concerns topics such as discriminating, meticulous.
Nearby Words: fastidiously, fastidiousness
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- dainty and demanding
- dainty and fastidious
- nice and demanding
- nice and fastidious
- exact and demanding
- exact and fastidious
- particular and demanding
- particular and fastidious
- critical and demanding
- critical and fastidious
- scrupulous and demanding
- scrupulous and fastidious
- difficult and demanding
- difficult and fastidious
Both words in one sentence
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In common with melancholic: Inflexible, emotionally distant, strict, demanding and fastidious, not very cooperative, vengeful, self-righteous and dogmatic, sees the worst in people
Source: Four-Temperament Ensemble
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