Making excessive demands on someone's skills or resources.
setting over-exacting standards of cleanliness
this job was not over-exacting
Example sentencesExamples
Since the job should not involve tasks more onerous than making platitudinous speeches to visiting dignitaries, the qualifications need not be over-exacting.
Never reject your patient because of lack of compliance with your over-exacting regimens.
Long-lasting effects can also be observed in some human beings engaged in hazardous or over-exacting work who seem to 'lose their nerve' after a time.
Such fastidiousness could have made him an impatient or over-exacting teacher, but that was not the case.
The game of professional investment is intolerably boring and over-exacting to anyone who is entirely exempt from the gambling instinct.