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Synonyms for pressing
ˈprɛs ɪŋpress·ing

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  1. pressing

    Synonyms:
    urgent compulsory, importunate

    Antonyms:
    unimportant, slight, trivial, light

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  1. press, pressure, pressingnoun

    the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure

    "he gave the button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the bleeding"; "at the pressing of a button"

    Synonyms:
    insistence, pressure level, military press, closet, force per unit area, public press, press, imperativeness, air pressure, crush, atmospheric pressure, wardrobe, printing press, pressure sensation, mechanical press, pressure, insistency, jam

    Antonyms:
    pleading, imploring, beseeching

  2. pressingadjective

    a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press

    Synonyms:
    pressure, press

    Antonyms:
    imploring, pleading, beseeching

  3. pressing, urgentadjective

    compelling immediate action

    "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"

    Synonyms:
    urgent

    Antonyms:
    imploring, pleading, beseeching

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  1. pressingadjective

    Synonyms:
    urgent, importunate

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  1. pressingadjective

    Synonyms:
    urgent, importunate, exigent

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  1. List of paraphrases for "pressing":

    urgent, compelling, acute, imperative, pulsar, immediate, pushing, dire, press

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How to use pressing in a sentence?

  1. Angus King:

    That's where it worries me that the President apparently has been pressing the intelligence community to find what he wants to find, the question should be,' Where did the virus come from ?' not' Don't you think it came from a lab ?' ... Because if they taint the intelligence before it gets to them, they're going to make bad decisions.

  2. Valerie Harper:

    The disease I have is quite a rare cancer and it is located in a limited area -- a very widespread area, but narrow, so a lot can happen if the cancer starts getting really aggressive, pressing on parts of the brain and causing me to lose either my speech or my ability to think, etc.

  3. Haein Shim:

    It is crucial for the government (and companies) to address pressing issues that are already affecting lives, the need for support and a healthy work life balance cannot be overlooked if we are to ensure the well-being of individuals with the reality of the highest suicide rate in the OECD.

  4. President Mahamadou Issoufou:

    The government has just foiled an evil attempt at detribalization. The objective of these individuals, motivated by I don't know what, was to overthrow the democratically elected power, they envisaged using aerial firepower and they have for some weeks deliberately blocked (those military assets) in Niamey that I was pressing them to send to Diffa to the front for the struggle against Boko Haram.

  5. President Ronald Reagan:

    There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.


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