Pressing

Adjective

 * 1) Needing urgent attention.
 * 2) * 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, ch. 75,
 * “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”
 * 1) Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
 * 2) * 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 2,
 * You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
 * 1) * 1908, Joseph Conrad, "The Duel,"
 * He was pressing and persuasive.

Derived terms

 * pressingly
 * pressingness

Noun

 * 1) The application of pressure by a press or other means.
 * 2) A metal or plastic part made with a press.
 * 3) The process of improving the appearance of clothing by removing creases with a press or an iron.
 * 4) The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
 * 5) A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
 * 6) Urgent insistence.

Verb
pressing



Adverbs for Pressing
strangely; curiously; immediately; insistently; persistently; inconveniently; instantly; inescapably; direly; embarrassingly; unduly; imperatively; absorbingly; desperately; gravely; critically; significantly; inordinately; portentously; momentously; ominously; peculiarly.

Thesaurus
abetment, actuating, acute, animating, blandishment, burning, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, causal, causative, clamant, clamorous, coactive, coaxing, compelling, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory, concentration, constraining, critical, crucial, crying, decoction, demanding, directive, distillation, draining, driving, dunning, encouragement, exacting, exigent, exorbitant, expression, extortionate, goading, grasping, grave, high-pressure, high-priority, impelling, imperative, imperious, important, importunate, importunateness, importunity, impulsive, inducive, infusion, insistence, insistent, instance, instant, irresistible, loud, major, momentous, motivating, motivational, motive, moving, nagging, needling, persistent, pertinacious, pestering, pivotal, plaguing, plying, portentous, pressure, pricking, prodding, profound, rendering, rendition, restraining, serious, significant, soaking, spurring, squeezing, steeping, taxing, teasing, urgency, urgent, urging, vital, wheedling

Adjective

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