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pressing

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Adjective, Noun
 : 
press=ing

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun pressing has 2 senses

Adjective pressing has 1 sense

  • pressing(s = adj.all) urgent - compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"

CIDE DICTIONARY

pressinga. 
     Urgent; exacting; importunate; as, a pressing necessity.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

pressing, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 urgent (pressing business).
2 a urging strongly (a pressing invitation). b persistent, importunate (since you are so pressing).
--n.
1 a thing made by pressing, esp. a gramophone record.
2 a series of these made at one time.
3 the act or an instance of pressing a thing, esp. a gramophone record or grapes etc. (all at one pressing).

Derivative
pressingly adv.

THESAURUS

pressing

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

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Requirement

N requirement, need, wants, necessities, necessaries, necessaries of life, stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity, case of need, case of life or death, needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency, requisition, run upon, demand, call for, charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept, desideratum, want, Adj, required, requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite, called for, in demand, in request, urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing, in want of, destitute of, ex necessitate rei, of necessity, there is no time to lose, it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with, mendacem memorem esse oportet, necessitas non habet legem, nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te.

Importance

N importance, consequence, moment, prominence, consideration, mark, materialness, import, significance, concern, emphasis, interest, greatness, superiority, notability, weight, value, usefulness, gravity, seriousness, solemnity, no joke, no laughing matter, pressure, urgency, stress, matter of life and death, memorabilia, notabilia, great doings, red-letter day, great thing, great point, main chance, the be all and the end all, cardinal point, substance, gist, sum and substance, gravamen, head and front, important part, principal part, prominent part, essential part, half the battle, sine qua non, breath of one's nostrils, cream, salt, core, kernel, heart, nucleus, keynote, keystone, corner stone, trump card, salient points, top sawyer, first fiddle, prima donna, chief, triton among the minnows, 'it', important, of importance, momentous, material, to the point, not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at, egregious, weighty, of note, notable, prominent, salient, signal, memorable, remarkable, unforgettable, worthy of remark, worthy of notice, never to be forgotten, stirring, eventful, grave, serious, earnest, noble, grand, solemn, impressive, commanding, imposing, urgent, pressing, critical, instant, paramount, essential, vital, all-absorbing, radical, cardinal, chief, main, prime, primary, principal, leading, capital, foremost, overruling, of vital importance in the front rank, first-rate, superior, considerable, marked, rare, significant, telling, trenchant, emphatic, pregnant, tanti, materially, in the main, above all, kat' exochin, par excellence, to crown all, to beat all, expende Hannibalem!.

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