1. demanding very high standards; requiring great precision or care

Examples

• The exacting professor required students to cite every source perfectly.
• Surgery is an exacting profession that demands years of training.
• Her exacting standards made her difficult to work with.
• The recipe calls for exacting measurements of each ingredient.
• He has exacting taste in wine and only drinks the finest vintages.
• The exacting nature of the job left little room for error.