Definition for Pressing:

• An urging; importunity.

Synonyms for Pressing:

• adj.

  •critical (adjective)
  • all-important,
  • high-priority,
  • pivotal.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • parlous,
  • Jeopardous,
  • portentous.
  •heavy (adjective)
  • leaden,
  • weighty,
  • oppressive,
  • dense,
  • massive,
  • ponderous,
  • gravitational,
  • heavy.
  •important (adjective)
  • of moment.
  •important; urgent (adjective)
  • Forcing,
  • vital,
  • clamorous,
  • constraining,
  • exacting,
  • importunate,
  • life-and-death.
  •obligatory (adjective)
  • inevitable,
  • requisite,
  • obligatory,
  • binding,
  • mandatory,
  • required,
  • compulsory,
  • indispensable.
  •required (adjective)
  • Stipulated,
  • proviso,
  • inescapable,
  • inexorable,
  • involuntary,
  • must,
  • prerequisite.

• n.

  •
  • burning,
  • emergent,
  • exigent,
  • big.
  •act (noun)
  • pressure,
  • press.
  •insistence (noun)
  • insistency.
  •insistency (noun)
  • importunity.

• v.

  •compelling (verb)
  • galvanizing,
  • daunting,
  • impelling,
  • urging,
  • mandating,
  • Browbeating,
  • Inciting,
  • stimulating,
  • nagging,
  • propelling,
  • pressuring,
  • bullying,
  • motivating,
  • Dragooning,
  • stressing,
  • obliging,
  • causing,
  • intimidating,
  • Dictating,
  • Bulldozing,
  • compelling,
  • sparking,
  • Coercing,
  • driving,
  • goading,
  • hijacking,
  • Fomenting.
  •happening (verb)
  • up.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • much.
  •
  • instance.
  •crucial
  • acute.
  •Other relevant words:
  • contracting,
  • presently,
  • narrowing,
  • wading,
  • immediately,
  • forcible,
  • Steeping,
  • compressing,
  • life-or-death,
  • inducement,
  • bring,
  • Mobbing,
  • Dunning,
  • Coactive,
  • distillation,
  • strangulating,
  • condensing,
  • fixing,
  • block,
  • assist,
  • Foreshortening,
  • central,
  • influence,
  • Cramming,
  • existing,
  • cheering,
  • shortening,
  • perilous,
  • swiftly,
  • stress,
  • signing,
  • cajolery,
  • decoction,
  • speed up,
  • mechanical press,
  • implore,
  • animating,
  • push on,
  • pinch,
  • coaxing,
  • Recommending,
  • desperate,
  • briskly,
  • defending,
  • advertising,
  • compel,
  • Flattening,
  • encouragement,
  • uppermost,
  • hastily,
  • Expediting,
  • depressing,
  • asserting,
  • agitating,
  • imperious,
  • Mashing,
  • constraint,
  • Cajolement,
  • radical,
  • make,
  • lean on,
  • rolling,
  • packing,
  • major,
  • pressure level,
  • sustain,
  • infusion,
  • great,
  • newspaper,
  • advertise,
  • leave aside,
  • current,
  • Exhorting,
  • extinguishing,
  • flatten,
  • ironing,
  • jostling,
  • tweeting,
  • promote,
  • actuating,
  • force,
  • Demanded,
  • Compacting,
  • Entreating,
  • irresistible,
  • needling,
  • help,
  • Dishing,
  • Clamping,
  • Invoking,
  • readily,
  • album,
  • press in,
  • drive,
  • rendering,
  • group,
  • prefer,
  • compulsion,
  • abetment,
  • Stamping,
  • Baling,
  • actual,
  • fell,
  • rousing,
  • insistence,
  • directive,
  • stirring,
  • draining,
  • crush,
  • exorbitant,
  • beseech,
  • necessitous,
  • Mattering,
  • crowd,
  • bundling,
  • Expressing,
  • spurring,
  • motive,
  • promptly,
  • profound,
  • clenching,
  • accelerate,
  • Advocating,
  • Closeting,
  • causative,
  • offering,
  • military press,
  • precipitately,
  • compression,
  • weighing,
  • recklessly,
  • disturbing,
  • entreat,
  • Calendering,
  • crowding,
  • press out,
  • Holing,
  • expeditiously,
  • Crusading,
  • inducing,
  • directly,
  • jam,
  • squeezing,
  • wardrobe,
  • causal,
  • present,
  • advertizing,
  • significant,
  • conjuring,
  • consequential,
  • tension,
  • impression,
  • Enforcing,
  • motivational,
  • pressed,
  • admonish,
  • barracking,
  • rashly,
  • pressure sensation,
  • buttonholing,
  • decompressing,
  • develop,
  • speedily,
  • Feeing,
  • split second,
  • stuffing,
  • calling,
  • hole,
  • printing press,
  • decompression,
  • plead,
  • beg,
  • extortionate,
  • Ramming,
  • crunch,
  • of consequence,
  • extreme,
  • emergency,
  • push in,
  • instantaneously,
  • cabinet,
  • persuasion,
  • construct,
  • Tugging,
  • Looing,
  • Pinching,
  • impulsive,
  • Plaguing,
  • quickly,
  • teasing,
  • expression,
  • pack,
  • create,
  • Tendering,
  • constricting,
  • neatly,
  • weigh,
  • Hustling,
  • conveniently,
  • Restraining,
  • moving,
  • Mangling,
  • Adjuring,
  • tighten,
  • Arousing,
  • record,
  • fourth estate,
  • campaigning,
  • Charging,
  • weightlifting,
  • loud,
  • encourage,
  • hastening,
  • shifting,
  • rush,
  • Pickling,
  • taxing,
  • pricking,
  • constrain,
  • arm-twisting,
  • high pressure,
  • Commoving,
  • prodding,
  • constitute,
  • imposing,
  • Abbreviating,
  • momentous,
  • grasping,
  • repressing,
  • Crunching,
  • hugging,
  • inspiring,
  • absorbing,
  • suddenly,
  • opposing,
  • closet,
  • counting,
  • imperativeness,
  • embracing,
  • rendition,
  • thoughtlessly,
  • persistent,
  • pestering,
  • inviting,
  • no laughing matter,
  • nipping,
  • printing,
  • advise,
  • Clasping,
  • soaking,
  • raising,
  • Muddling,
  • inducive,
  • produce,
  • direct,
  • anxious,
  • forthwith,
  • focal,
  • intimidation,
  • public press,
  • Concentrating,
  • pertinacious,
  • twitching,
  • crushing,
  • avid,
  • labouring,
  • wheedling,
  • power,
  • concentration,
  • Considering,
  • Caballing,
  • Extracting,
  • coerce,
  • pressingly,
  • exigency,
  • sway,
  • handily,
  • dilemma,
  • Budging,
  • haste,
  • Plying,
  • laboring,
  • lively,
  • Importuning,
  • rapidly,
  • Squashing,
  • blandishment,
  • Compulsatory,
  • jamming,
  • earnest,
  • squash,
  • Messing,
  • Abridging,
  • Oppressing,
  • hurriedly,
  • exciting,
  • coercion,
  • constriction,
  • compulsive,
  • instantly,
  • Conspiring.

Paraphrases for Pressing:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    press.
  • Proper noun, singular
    press.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    press.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    pressurising, pressurizing, bypressing, squeezing.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    compelling, burning, overriding, demanding, desperate, challenging, imminent, crucial, urgently, serious, overwhelming, worrying, time-sensitive, impending, priority, peremptory, eager, essential, tight, persistent, exigent, anxious, stringent, vital, salient, prioritized, prominent, glaring, alarming, troubling.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Suppressing, stressing, Promoting, pursuing, Presenting, propelling, proceeding, persisting, Furthering, promising, accelerating, asserting, striving, support, supporting, Reiterating, emphasizing, emphasising, encourage, encouraging, imposing, prompting, fostering, reinforcing, discriminating, underscoring, Endorsing, advancing, Exerting, Enforcing, intensifying, moving, passing, Advocating, using, Securing, exercising, underlining, Sustaining, endeavouring, Providing, seeking, Forcing, seriously, Resuming, insisting, pending, leveraging, featuring, operating, motivating, helping, tightening, Facilitating, resulting, highlighting, Introducing, exporting, Inciting, actuating, powering, Choosing, Requiring, drive, driving, arguing, Attracting, Nearing, actively, Affirming, pointing, inviting, working, Soliciting, Relying, Attempting, Harping, offering, confronting, Requesting, requests, wearing, upholding, Boosting, Submitting, inducing, crushing, dwelling, Carrying, rushing, pleading, Placing, Outlining, asking, obliging, Pulping, Looming, bring, bringing, showing, Adopting, hitting, facing, putting, causing, weighing, conducting, trying, Obtaining, Throwing, opting, Clamping, drawing, pulling, approaching, Assisting, fighting, compelling, Electing, holding, building, focusing, focussing, calling, touching, going, Basing, taking, running, meaning, backing, getting, acting, Doing, burning, pushing, overriding, demanding, challenging, worrying, urgent.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    imperative, dire, immediate, insistent, acute, nagging, crying, exigency, daunting, severe, disturbing, topical, earnest, strong, worrisome, urgent.
  • Proper noun, singular
    urgent.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    pressuring, printing, urging, urges, snapping, Coercing, Pinching.

Antonyms for Pressing:

• adj.

  • important; urgent
    unimportant, uncritical, dull, inessential, insignificant, optional, trivial.
  • Other antonyms:
    imploring, pleading, safe, minor, beseeching, incidental, negligible, stable, noncritical.

Hypernym for Pressing:

• n.

  • act
    compression, impression, compressing.

Hyponym for Pressing:

• n.

  • act
    pushing, push.
  • artifact
    portion, part.