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vaativa — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • arduous adjective Requiring great effort or endurance; difficult and tiring.
  • demanding adjective Requiring a lot of effort, skill, or patience.
  • exacting adjective Demanding a lot from people; hard to satisfy.
  • exigent adj Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
  • fastidious adj Extremely careful about small details, especially cleanliness and order; hard to please.
  • intensive adj Involving a lot of effort or activity concentrated in a short period; thorough.
  • tough adjective Strong and resilient; not easily broken, worn out, or damaged.

Senses

vaativa is used for these senses in English:

  • arduous Difficult or exhausting to traverse.
  • demanding Requiring much endurance, strength, or patience.
  • demanding Making great demands in terms of quality, quantity, accuracy or other criteria; difficult to satisfy.
  • exacting Making great demands; difficult to satisfy.
  • exigent Demanding; requiring great effort.
  • fastidious Difficult to please; quick to find fault.
  • intensive Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
  • tough (of questions, etc.) Difficult or demanding.

demanding — full definition

  1. adjective Requiring a lot of effort, skill, or patience.
  2. adjective Expecting a high standard from others and not easily satisfied.

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