Definition for Pressure:

• A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization.

Synonyms for Pressure:

• n.

  •
  • encumbrance,
  • attraction,
  • load,
  • strength,
  • weight,
  • burden,
  • shear,
  • mass,
  • tension.
  •
  • trouble,
  • encouragement,
  • unnaturalness,
  • hardship,
  • misfortune,
  • constraint,
  • requirement,
  • oppression,
  • repression,
  • confinement,
  • urgency,
  • urging,
  • necessity,
  • affliction,
  • persuasion,
  • discipline,
  • demand.
  •
  • distress,
  • strain,
  • worry,
  • anxiety.
  •
  • violence.
  •
  • sweetener,
  • wiles,
  • blandishments,
  • bait.
  •
  • pester,
  • threaten.
  •compulsion (noun)
  • coercion,
  • propulsion,
  • intimidation,
  • duress,
  • incitement,
  • stimulation,
  • compulsion,
  • obligation.
  •crisis (noun)
  • predicament.
  •demand, difficulty (noun)
  • confinement,
  • hurry,
  • urgency,
  • obligation,
  • crunch,
  • force,
  • compulsion,
  • coercion,
  • choke,
  • albatross,
  • trouble,
  • necessity,
  • heat,
  • influence,
  • power,
  • constraint,
  • distress,
  • hardship,
  • drag,
  • exigency,
  • weight,
  • pull,
  • duress,
  • persuasion,
  • sway,
  • clout,
  • press,
  • hassle,
  • inside track,
  • discipline,
  • requirement,
  • misfortune,
  • adversity,
  • affliction,
  • full court press,
  • unnaturalness.
  •difficulty (noun)
  • millstone,
  • vicissitude,
  • exigency.
  •energy (noun)
  • conductivity,
  • dynamism.
  •heaviness (noun)
  • weight.
  •influence (noun)
  • importance,
  • authority,
  • predominance,
  • pull,
  • motivation,
  • rule,
  • seniority,
  • rank,
  • mastery,
  • supremacy.
  •physical force, weight (noun)
  • encumbrance,
  • load,
  • compression,
  • heaviness,
  • squeeze,
  • compressing,
  • strain,
  • thrust,
  • strength,
  • stress,
  • squeezing,
  • shear,
  • burden,
  • tension,
  • mass,
  • crushing.
  •pressure (noun)
  • coerce,
  • force,
  • hale,
  • force per unit area,
  • imperativeness,
  • blackmail,
  • insistence,
  • insistency,
  • blackjack,
  • pressure level,
  • pressing,
  • pressure sensation,
  • press.
  •requirement (noun)
  • enforcement.
  •tightness (noun)
  • tension.

• v.

  •bother, urge (verb)
  • impel,
  • push,
  • drive,
  • push around,
  • rush,
  • constrain,
  • insist,
  • compel,
  • come at,
  • lean on,
  • politick,
  • sell,
  • work over,
  • twist arm.
  •compel (verb)
  • stimulate,
  • impel,
  • oblige,
  • browbeat,
  • dragoon,
  • spark,
  • stress,
  • bully,
  • mandate,
  • bulldoze,
  • hijack,
  • dictate,
  • propel,
  • galvanize,
  • nag,
  • drive,
  • cause,
  • incite,
  • goad,
  • urge,
  • intimidate,
  • daunt,
  • foment,
  • push,
  • compel,
  • press,
  • coerce.
  •influence (verb)
  • command,
  • lead,
  • bias,
  • master,
  • motivate,
  • authorize,
  • control,
  • affect,
  • prejudice,
  • empower,
  • influence,
  • power,
  • predominate,
  • sway.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • constraint,
  • imposition,
  • load,
  • impulse,
  • necessity,
  • anxiety,
  • pressurize,
  • suspense,
  • agitation,
  • wiles,
  • qualms,
  • blandishments,
  • heebie-jeebies.
  •
  • courtship,
  • enforce,
  • difficulty,
  • invitation,
  • oppression,
  • measurement,
  • strain,
  • worry,
  • sweetener,
  • constrain,
  • tension,
  • care.
  •
  • conflict,
  • violence,
  • obligate,
  • energy,
  • bait.
  •
  • strength.
  •
  • make.
  •accident
  • emergency.
  •overdo
  • overdo,
  • overtaxing.
  •straits
  • crisis.
  •weight
  • gravity.
  •Other relevant words:
  • preponderance,
  • repression,
  • driving force,
  • trouble,
  • enchantment,
  • bear down upon,
  • agitation,
  • thermonuclear power,
  • tease,
  • feeling,
  • tension,
  • subjugation,
  • cajole,
  • petting,
  • keenness,
  • motive,
  • fourth estate,
  • tweak,
  • wheedling,
  • electricity,
  • condensed,
  • derive,
  • momentum,
  • caressing,
  • purchase,
  • decompression,
  • upper hand,
  • confinement,
  • importunity,
  • heebie-jeebies,
  • weightiness,
  • load,
  • vigor,
  • pull wires,
  • insist,
  • handling,
  • pressure level,
  • color,
  • move,
  • attract,
  • beat,
  • hustle,
  • bosom,
  • incline,
  • clout,
  • enforcement,
  • discipline,
  • imperativeness,
  • threaten,
  • dig,
  • exhort,
  • exigency,
  • ballast,
  • ride,
  • capability,
  • imperative,
  • intoxication,
  • shove,
  • railroad,
  • joggle,
  • bring pressure to bear upon,
  • sell,
  • require,
  • call on,
  • suffering,
  • crush,
  • anxious,
  • accentuation,
  • provoke,
  • hassle,
  • prod,
  • contract,
  • high pressure,
  • insistence,
  • blandishments,
  • close to,
  • impact,
  • coax,
  • dispose,
  • desire,
  • eminence,
  • clamping down,
  • millstone,
  • electromagnetism,
  • ram,
  • pin down,
  • drag,
  • force per unit area,
  • cow,
  • excitement,
  • push around,
  • piquance,
  • clutch,
  • induce,
  • frighten,
  • pressing,
  • twist one's arm,
  • ascendancy,
  • sweet-talk,
  • blackmail,
  • obligate,
  • fancy,
  • haste,
  • blast,
  • cajolery,
  • goading,
  • Preponderancy,
  • dun,
  • cargo,
  • menace,
  • atomic power,
  • bitter pill,
  • touching,
  • demand,
  • bullyrag,
  • greatness,
  • get-up-and-go,
  • prodding,
  • gouge,
  • heat,
  • leverage,
  • pressure sensation,
  • prominence,
  • haul,
  • deadweight,
  • boost,
  • jab,
  • Compacted,
  • public press,
  • tax,
  • center of buoyancy,
  • emphasis,
  • promote,
  • impulse,
  • bustle,
  • exciting,
  • incumbrance,
  • might,
  • lobby,
  • blandish,
  • dynamism,
  • compressed,
  • terrorize,
  • recommend,
  • hard knocks,
  • plight,
  • impressiveness,
  • vale of tears,
  • pressurise,
  • wear,
  • wind power,
  • threat,
  • nervousness,
  • live wire,
  • enforce,
  • squeezing,
  • impulsion,
  • exacting,
  • impress,
  • infection,
  • predicament,
  • jog,
  • blandishment,
  • say,
  • go,
  • oppression,
  • loading,
  • no laughing matter,
  • blight,
  • hard life,
  • incumbency,
  • depict,
  • itch,
  • decompressing,
  • stimulus,
  • violence,
  • burthen,
  • packed,
  • prestige,
  • insomnia,
  • hard times,
  • manipulation,
  • counterpoise,
  • burden,
  • ply,
  • nervous strain,
  • thrust,
  • immediacy,
  • precedence,
  • difficulty,
  • flow,
  • insinuation,
  • bearing,
  • spur,
  • entrancement,
  • storm,
  • military press,
  • overweighting,
  • mental strain,
  • call upon,
  • encumber,
  • nuclear power,
  • center of gravity,
  • responsibility,
  • Gravamen,
  • ascendency,
  • pestering,
  • solar energy,
  • rainy day,
  • stature,
  • plague,
  • sandbag,
  • jam,
  • measurement,
  • charisma,
  • extremity,
  • tautness,
  • elasticity,
  • bunt,
  • suasion,
  • accent,
  • oppress,
  • Suscitation,
  • put pressure on,
  • persuade,
  • screw,
  • soft-soap,
  • squeeze,
  • pull strings,
  • affliction,
  • insisting,
  • persuasion,
  • exertion,
  • compression,
  • overburden,
  • prevalence,
  • conductivity,
  • constrain,
  • twist,
  • beg,
  • fascination,
  • Exigencies,
  • cloud,
  • matter of necessity,
  • nip,
  • scary,
  • suspense,
  • vigour,
  • nagging,
  • vicissitude,
  • request,
  • carry,
  • consequence,
  • surcharge,
  • moment,
  • hardcase,
  • extort,
  • cross,
  • Metacenter,
  • choke,
  • teasing,
  • center of percussion,
  • interest,
  • blackjack,
  • sad,
  • coaxing,
  • ask,
  • hector,
  • crushing,
  • demandingness,
  • incubus,
  • dominance,
  • problem,
  • traction,
  • frottage,
  • misfortune,
  • peer pressure,
  • potency,
  • nudge,
  • beset,
  • head,
  • rush,
  • gravity,
  • buttonhole,
  • strong-arm tactics,
  • live rail,
  • stuff,
  • conflict,
  • insist on,
  • yearning,
  • stroking,
  • Plying,
  • fingering,
  • Enravishment,
  • poke,
  • wheedle,
  • tense,
  • overload,
  • encumbrance,
  • need,
  • strength,
  • animation,
  • energy,
  • compress,
  • butt,
  • lean on,
  • Clamping,
  • inside track,
  • manipulate,
  • thirst,
  • weary,
  • Difficulties,
  • sweetener,
  • bale,
  • torsion,
  • abetment,
  • traumatic,
  • troubles,
  • impetus,
  • necessity,
  • pulsation,
  • insist upon,
  • bear hard upon,
  • Voltaism,
  • magnetism,
  • solar panels,
  • work over,
  • change,
  • wardrobe,
  • anguish,
  • tenseness,
  • bear against,
  • visitation,
  • albatross,
  • longing,
  • pricking,
  • worry,
  • onus,
  • bland,
  • vexation,
  • nag at,
  • problems,
  • domination,
  • work,
  • expedite,
  • insistency,
  • constriction,
  • courtship,
  • hurry,
  • jolt,
  • disagreeable,
  • hardship,
  • painfulness,
  • arduous,
  • voltaic electricity,
  • crowded,
  • play upon,
  • temperature,
  • cumber,
  • punch,
  • reign,
  • overtaxing,
  • Saddling,
  • bait,
  • vis inertiae,
  • vexing,
  • invitation,
  • charge,
  • impression,
  • perturbation,
  • piquancy,
  • pressingness,
  • esteem,
  • imposition,
  • constraints,
  • make,
  • worrying,
  • calling forth,
  • palpation,
  • imperil,
  • draw,
  • come at,
  • iron age,
  • overdo,
  • stressful,
  • pin,
  • printing press,
  • priority,
  • nervous tension,
  • lading,
  • Predominancy,
  • twist arm,
  • gathering clouds,
  • favour,
  • galvanism,
  • trial,
  • full court press,
  • rigor,
  • good feeling,
  • credit,
  • tightness,
  • solar power,
  • sorrow,
  • urgency,
  • mechanical press,
  • distressing,
  • tyrannize,
  • force,
  • atmosphere,
  • bad times,
  • incentive,
  • Importunacy,
  • entreat,
  • brunt,
  • order,
  • politick,
  • Dunning,
  • shear,
  • pertinaciousness,
  • personality,
  • terrify,
  • disturbing,
  • Burdening,
  • Irksome,
  • urging,
  • gravitation,
  • crowd,
  • weigh down,
  • unnaturalness,
  • advocate,
  • charm,
  • prevail upon,
  • cart,
  • ictus,
  • irritation,
  • forcefulness,
  • distress,
  • get,
  • work on,
  • scare,
  • qualms,
  • buttonholing,
  • whip hand,
  • instancy,
  • annoyance,
  • Cumbrance,
  • closet,
  • evil day,
  • painful,
  • pain,
  • anxiety,
  • barometric,
  • endanger,
  • Superincumbency,
  • hale,
  • Exigence,
  • fire,
  • demands,
  • pinch,
  • downer,
  • intensity,
  • compact,
  • friction,
  • Importune,
  • fuel cell,
  • crunch,
  • needling,
  • rubbing,
  • hydroelectric power,
  • leadership,
  • instance,
  • encourage,
  • arm-twisting,
  • jawbone,
  • beseech,
  • infliction,
  • attraction,
  • twinge,
  • besiege,
  • strain,
  • specific gravity,
  • Water power,
  • wiles,
  • craving,
  • heaviness,
  • sphygmomanometer,
  • bother,
  • seriousness,
  • jostle,
  • bug,
  • vis viva,
  • lean,
  • persistence,
  • case of need,
  • provocation,
  • matter of life and death,
  • dark cloud,
  • care,
  • act on,
  • spurring,
  • act upon,
  • tightening,
  • no joke,
  • hold,
  • dynamic energy,
  • tribulation,
  • extortion,
  • emergency,
  • mass,
  • rigour,
  • blood pressure,
  • curse,
  • constraint,
  • humidity,
  • ill wind,
  • repute,
  • press for,
  • close in on,
  • bring,
  • effect,
  • pester,
  • alter,
  • crisis,
  • psi,
  • aggravation,
  • compressing,
  • inducement,
  • afflict,
  • weight,
  • instigation,
  • solemnity,
  • yen,
  • bump,
  • adverse circumstances,
  • tidal power,
  • freight,
  • describe,
  • grief,
  • inspiration,
  • bear down on,
  • Plaguing,
  • effort,
  • hunger,
  • adversity,
  • plead,
  • requirement,
  • pertinacity,
  • suggestion,
  • wedge,
  • prevail on,
  • tighten,
  • potential energy,
  • taxing,
  • torque,
  • warn,
  • Charging,
  • Cajolement,
  • difficult,
  • overwhelm,
  • importunateness,
  • straits,
  • prompting,
  • pressurize,
  • herd instinct,
  • encouragement,
  • bummer,
  • modify,
  • handicap.

Antonyms for Pressure:

• n.

  • demand, difficulty
    blessing, favor, assistance, comfort, help, aid, incapacity, weakness, incompetence, powerlessness, impotence, health, advantage, unimportance, freedom, benefit.
  • physical force, weight
    facility, peace, relaxation, ease.
  • Other antonyms:
    approval, agreement, consolation, convincing, consent, persuasion, reason, permission, comfort, suasion.

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    advantage, agreement, aid, allow, approval, argue, assistance, benefit, blessing, comfort, consent, consolation, convince, convincing, discharge, dissuade, facility, favor, favour, freedom, health, help, impotence, incapacity, incompetence, induce, leave alone, let, peace, permission, permit, persuade, persuasion, powerlessness, prevail, pull, reason, relaxation, repress, satisfy, slow, suasion, talk, talk into, weakness, win, win over, prevail on, prevail upon, retard, back pressure, backpressure.

• v.

  • bother, urge
    leave alone, pull, retard, dissuade, slow, repress.