pressingly
advEtymology
From pressing + -ly.
Definitions
With a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
- I wrote pressingly to Mr. Boone to raise men with all expedition to join capt. Floyd.
Importantly. Often used with more in this sense.
- Why would you do that on a date, and why, more pressingly, would you do that at the beginning of a date?
With enthusiasm. With friendly encouragement.
- In early 1993, further education staff were pressingly invited to seminars, workshops and training days to prepare for liberation from the local education authorities.
The neighborhood
- synonymurgently
- synonymimportantly
- synonympersistently
- synonympersuasively
- synonymenthusiastically
- antonymapathetically
- antonymhalf-heartedly
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at pressingly. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at pressingly. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at pressingly
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA