1. Requiring more than usually expected or thought due, especially great patience, effort, and skill
   "a baby can be so demanding"; "found the job very demanding";
   - exacting

1. Request urgently and forcefully
   "She demanded to see the manager"; "The victim's family is demanding compensation"; "The boss demanded that he be fired immediately"
    
2. Claim as due or just
   "The bank demanded payment of the loan";
   - exact
    
3. Make essential as a condition or prerequisite
   "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice";
   - necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for
    
4. Lay legal claim to
   "The heir demanded his inheritance"
    
5. Summon (someone) to appear in court
   "The witness was demanded to appear before the judge"
    
6. Ask to be informed of
   "I demand an explanation"

See also: difficult, exacting, exigent, hard, hard to please, hard-to-please, needy, rigorous, stern, strict, stringent, tight

Type of: ask for, bear on, bespeak, call for, cite, claim, concern, have to do with, pertain, refer, relate, request, summon, summons, touch, touch on

Antonym: undemanding

Encyclopedia: Demanding