Difference between Exacting and Stern

What is the difference between Exacting and Stern?

Exacting as an adjective is making excessive demands; hard to satisfy. while Stern as an adjective is having a hardness and severity of nature or manner

Exacting

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To demand and enforce the payment or performance of, sometimes in a forcible or imperious way.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Making excessive demands; hard to satisfy. Requiring precise accuracy

Stern

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having a hardness and severity of nature or mannergrim and forbidding in appearance

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The rear part or after end of a ship or vessel.

We hope you now know whether to use Exacting or Stern in your sentence.

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