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• pressing — adj Pressing, urgent, imperative, crying, importunate, insistent, exigent, instant are comparable when they mean demanding or claiming attention and especially immediate attention. Pressing often implies directly or indirectly the use of pressure …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• pressing — [pres′iŋ] adj. [prp. of PRESS1] 1. calling for immediate attention; urgent 2. persistent in request or demand; insistent n. 1. the process or an instance of stamping, squeezing, etc. with a press 2. the result of this, often a series or one of a… …   English World dictionary

• insistent — I adjective argumentative, assertive, bent upon, clamorous, coactive, coercive, commanding, compelling, crying, demanding, disposed to insist, dogmatic, driving, emphatic, exigent, forceful, harping, impelling, imperative, importunate, incessant …   Law dictionary

• insistent — *pressing, urgent, imperative, crying, importunate, exigent, instant Analogous words: persistent, persevering (see corresponding verbs at PERSEVERE): pertinacious, dogged (see OBSTINATE): obtrusive, *impertinent …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• insistent — [adj] demanding assertive, burning, clamant, clamorous, continuous, crying, dire, dogged, emphatic, exigent, forceful, imperative, imperious, importunate, incessant, obstinate, peremptory, perseverant, persevering, persistent, pressing,… …   New thesaurus

• pressing — I adjective acute, cogent, compelling, compulsory, constraining, critical, crucial, demanded, demanding, driving, essential, exacting, exigent, forceful, grave, high priority, impelling, imperative, important, importunate, indispensable, major,… …   Law dictionary

• pressing — [adj] important; urgent acute, burning, claiming, clamant, clamorous, compelling, constraining, critical, crucial, crying, demanding, dire, distressing, exacting, exigent, forcing, heat on*, high priority, hurry up*, immediate, imperative,… …   New thesaurus

• pressing — 1. adjective a) Needing urgent attention. “I come on business. Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.” b) Insistent, earnest, or persistent. You …   Wiktionary

• pressing — press·ing || presɪŋ n. copy of a recording, duplicate of a disc adj. stressed, under pressure; urgent, crucial; imperative, demanding, important; insistent, persistent pres n. journals and newspapers collectively; act or process of printing;… …   English contemporary dictionary

• insistent — Synonyms and related words: acute, assertive, assiduous, burning, cajoling, clamant, clamorous, coaxing, compelling, constant, continuing, critical, crucial, crying, demanding, determined, diligent, dire, dogged, draining, dunning, emphatic,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• pressing — Synonyms and related words: abetment, actuating, acute, animating, blandishment, burning, buttonholing, cajolement, cajolery, causal, causative, clamant, clamorous, coactive, coaxing, compelling, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory,… …   Moby Thesaurus