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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1. Bill Maher:

   During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was too hot. There were urgent, pressing problems. If you think you have it tough, read history books.

2. John McCain:

   But I have to tell you ... the power of this maritime lobby is as powerful as anybody or any organization I have run up against in my political career. All I can do is appeal to the patron saint of lost causes and keep pressing and pressing and sooner or later you have to succeed.

3. 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.

4. Zalmay Khalilizad:

   We're pressing very hard on that and I'll be pressing the issue further on my next trip.

5. Margaret Mead:

   Our first and most pressing problem is how to do away with warfare as a method of solving conflicts between national groups within a society who have different views about how the society is to run.