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.

• v.

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