While all these words mean “to ask or call for something as due or as necessary,” claim implies a demand for the delivery or concession of something due as one’s own or one’s right. The words exact and claim are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, exact implies not only demanding but getting what one demands.
Synonyms of claim
- In some situations, the words require and claim are roughly equivalent.
- While all these words mean “to ask or call for something as due or as necessary,” claim implies a demand for the delivery or concession of something due as one’s own or one’s right.
- Demand implies peremptoriness and insistence and often the right to make requests that are to be regarded as commands.
- Specifically, exact implies not only demanding but getting what one demands.
Demand, claim, require, exact mean to ask or call for something as due or as necessary. In some situations, the words require and claim are roughly equivalent. However, require suggests the imperativeness that arises from inner necessity, compulsion of law or regulation, or the exigencies of the situation. Claim implies a demand for the delivery or concession of something due as one’s own or one’s right.
- Demand, claim, require, exact mean to ask or call for something as due or as necessary.
- While Soren claims to have learned a lot from little bits of advice I have given him in the past few years, at times I learn a lot more from him.
- In some situations, the words require and claim are roughly equivalent.
- Claim implies a demand for the delivery or concession of something due as one’s own or one’s right.
- However, require suggests the imperativeness that arises from inner necessity, compulsion of law or regulation, or the exigencies of the situation.
Word History
While Soren claims to have learned a lot from little bits of advice I have given him in the past few years, at times I learn a lot more from him. Demand implies peremptoriness and bullish bearish meaning insistence and often the right to make requests that are to be regarded as commands.