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Synonyms for pressing
ˈprɛs ɪŋpress·ing
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pressing
Synonyms:
urgent compulsory, importunateAntonyms:
unimportant, slight, trivial, light
Princeton's WordNet
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, jamAntonyms:
pleading, imploring, beseechingpressingadjective
a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press
Antonyms:
imploring, pleading, beseechingpressing, urgentadjective
compelling immediate action
"too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"
Synonyms:
urgentAntonyms:
imploring, pleading, beseeching
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
pressingadjective
Synonyms:
urgent, importunate
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
pressingadjective
Synonyms:
urgent, importunate, exigent
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "pressing":
urgent, compelling, acute, imperative, pulsar, immediate, pushing, dire, press
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#422 | press | |
#1608 | pressure | |
#3122 | immediate | |
#5259 | jam | |
#5690 | acute | |
#8279 | urgent | |
#8740 | pressing | |
#8967 | pushing | |
#10180 | compelling | |
#10648 | closet | |
#12305 | wardrobe | |
#12398 | crush | |
#14966 | imperative | |
#16120 | dire | |
#23019 | pulsar | |
#31063 | insistence | |
#210695 | importunate |
How to use pressing in a sentence?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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