exactingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɪɡˈzæktɪŋ/
• 韻: -æktɪŋ
• ハイフネーション: ex‧act‧ing

形容詞

exacting (comparative more exacting, superlative most exacting)

1. Making great demands; difficult to satisfy.
   • 1874, Edward Payson Roe, chapter 4, in Opening a Chestnut Burr:

     His exacting taste required no small degree of outward perfection.

   • 1895, Arthur Conan Doyle, chapter 7, in The Stark Munro Letters:

     [H]e burst into apologies which would have satisfied a more exacting man than I am.

   • 2025 April 2, Sara Miller Llana, “Who is Mark Carney? Maybe just who Canada wants to face off against Trump.”, in The Christian Science Monitor:

     [Canadian Prime Minister] Mr. [Mark] Carney was the exacting governor of the Bank of Canada during the 2008 financial crisis, and the levelheaded governor of the Bank of England during Brexit.

2. Of an action, task, etc., requiring precise accuracy, great care, effort, or attention.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, chapter 3, in The Man:

     Wolf's work, which, though not very exacting, had to be done single-handed, kept him to his post.

   • 1952 February, H. C. Casserley, “Permanent Wayfarings”, in Railway Magazine, page 78:

     Every photographer of experience has his own theories and methods of working, but for the last 14 years I have used a Leica exclusively, and have found it best adapted to the somewhat exacting demands of railway photography, which is by no means an easy branch of the art.

   • December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian‎:

     Even if a GDF receives its first deposit in the 2040s, the waste has to be delivered and put away with such exacting caution that it can be filled and closed only by the middle of the 22nd century.

3. Of a person or organization, characterized by exaction.
   • 1850, T. S. Arthur, chapter 2, in All's For the Best:

     "He is a hard, exacting, money-loving man," was my remark.

同意語

• (difficult to satisfy): demanding
• (requiring precise accuracy, effort, care, or attention): demanding, niggly, pernickety
• (characterized by exaction): acquisitive, extortionate, grasping, money-grubbing, rapacious

派生語

動詞

exacting

1. present participle and gerund of exact

派生語

• exactingly
• exactingness

参考

• Thesaurus:fastidious
• Thesaurus:meticulous