All pressing synonyms
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P p adj pressing
- acute — An acute accent is a symbol that is placed over vowels in some languages in order to indicate how that vowel is pronounced or over one letter in a word to indicate where it is stressed. You refer to a letter with this accent as, for example, e acute. For example, there is an acute accent over the letter 'e' in the French word 'café'.
- insistent — earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent; pertinacious.
- crucial — If you describe something as crucial, you mean it is extremely important.
- demanding — A demanding job or task requires a lot of your time, energy, or attention.
- compelling — A compelling argument or reason is one that convinces you that something is true or that something should be done.
- vital — of or relating to life: vital processes.
- imperative — imperative language
- immediate — occurring or accomplished without delay; instant: an immediate reply.
- dire — causing or involving great fear or suffering; dreadful; terrible: a dire calamity.
- serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- critical — If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
- distressing — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- instant — an infinitesimal or very short space of time; a moment: They arrived not an instant too soon.
- burning — You use burning to describe something that is extremely hot.
- requiring — to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
- crying — notorious; lamentable (esp in the phrase crying shame)
- obliging — willing or eager to do favors, offer one's services, etc.; accommodating: The clerk was most obliging.
- claiming — to assert and demand the recognition of (a right, title, possession, etc.); assert one's right to: to claim payment for services.
- clamant — noisy
- clamorous — If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting.
- importunate — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
- life-and-death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.
- hurry-up — characterized by speed or the need for speed; quick: a hurry-up meal; a hurry-up phone call.