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exigeant — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • choosy adjective Careful and selective about what you pick, wanting things to match your exact tastes or standards.
  • 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.
  • quaint adjective Attractively unusual or old-fashioned, especially in a charming way.

Senses

exigeant is used for these senses in English:

  • 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.
  • quaint (obsolete) Overly discriminating or needlessly meticulous; fastidious; prim. [15th–19th c.]

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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