Antonyms for pressing
ˈprɛs ɪŋpress·ing

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1. pressing

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, slight, trivial, light

   Synonyms:
   urgent compulsory, importunate

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1. press, pressure, pressingnoun

   the act of pressing; the exertion of pressure

   "he gave the button a press"; "he used pressure to stop the bleeding"; "at the pressing of a button"

   Antonyms:
   pleading, imploring, beseeching

   Synonyms:
   insistence, pressure level, military press, closet, force per unit area, public press, press, imperativeness, air pressure, crush, atmospheric pressure, wardrobe, printing press, pressure sensation, mechanical press, pressure, insistency, jam

2. pressingadjective

   a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press

   Antonyms:
   imploring, pleading, beseeching

   Synonyms:
   pressure, press

3. pressing, urgentadjective

   compelling immediate action

   "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"

   Antonyms:
   imploring, pleading, beseeching

   Synonyms:
   urgent

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1. pressingadjective

   Synonyms:
   urgent, importunate, exigent

How to use pressing in a sentence?

1. Lila Rose:

   The lives of children are just as valuable as the lives of adults, and it should be every politician’s most pressing duty to ensure our laws protect the most vulnerable, instead, Harris wants the law to sanction the greatest human rights abuse and mass slaughter of children our nation has ever seen.

2. Alexandria Lafci:

   We seem to just accept that there will always be homelessness or there will always be people who don't have any access to education or water, we have some of the brightest minds and we have the most promising technology in Silicon Valley working on elite problems. How can we rethink and reshape existing and budding technology toward these more pressing issues ?

3. Angus King:

   That's where it worries me that the President apparently has been pressing the intelligence community to find what he wants to find, the question should be,' Where did the virus come from ?' not' Don't you think it came from a lab ?' ... Because if they taint the intelligence before it gets to them, they're going to make bad decisions.

4. German Chancellor Angela Merkel:

   Time is pressing, so we - the older ones, I am 65 years old - must make sure that we take the impatience of young people positively and constructively.

5. Plato:

   There are few people so stubborn in their atheism who when danger is pressing in will not acknowledge the divine power.

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