exacting
These paintings have a more spontaneous feel than his larger, more exactingly finished works.
The characters in the novel are all exactingly described.
She is not an exactingly literal translator, but one who tries to capture the spirit of the original.
The orchestra was exactingly conducted.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Complicated and difficult to do
advanced
ambitious
ambitiously
another
arduous
formidably
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grail
gruelling
gruellingly
onerously
overdemanding
painstaking
picnic
problematic
trickily
tricky
tuff
ultra-sensitive
unintuitive
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