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What is the adjective for press?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs press, pressure, pressurize, pressurise, presspack and prest which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

pressing
  1. Needing urgent attention.
  2. Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. urgent, critical, dire, imperative, acute, exigent, crucial, serious, burning, compelling, grave, imperious, importunate, desperate, emergent, drastic, necessitous, extreme, instant, clamouring, clamoring, distressing, exacting, high priority, high-priority, life-and-death, now or never, clamant, crying, vital, important, severe, essential, parlous, significant, profound, terrible, great, weighty, all-important, intense, precarious, dreadful, alarming, climacteric, egregious, demanding, sore, perilous, awful … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The finance ministers do not have any immediately pressing issues to discuss, unlike at some meetings in the past.”
      “I'm sorry, but I have a pressing engagement to attend, and so I must leave.”
      “It is unusual in our time to hear or read someone declare that conscience tells them to change their strongest beliefs and sacrifice their most pressing desires.”
pressed
  1. Under strain or deprivation
  2. (nautical) recruited by a press gang
  3. Synonyms:
      4. pressured, pushed, constrained, rushed, stretched, busy, overextended, rushing, struggling, forced, hard-pressed, in a hurry, barely able, fraught, stressed, under pressure, strained … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The teachers are really pressed for time and are preoccupied with helping their students pass high-stakes tests.”
pressive
  1. (obsolete) pressing; urgent
  2. (obsolete) oppressive
  3. Examples:
      4. “The footballing world has almost forgotten Sinclair, since he joined Man City in August 2012 after an im pressive spell at Swansea.”
      “Easier to use and learn than com parable products, it allows novices to correct their photos with sim ple one-step fixes and generate im pressive results im m ediately.”
      “Safety features include pressive ith anti-lock syst a standard.”
prest
  1. (obsolete) Ready; prompt; prepared.
  2. (obsolete) Neat; tidy; proper.
pressureless
  1. Without pressure or the use of pressure.
pressurizable
  1. Capable of being pressurized.
pressable
  1. Capable of being pressed.
pressurized
  1. Under pressure.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. hassled, harassed, hounded, beleaguered, bothered, stressed, agitated, beset, browbeaten, flustered, harried, plagued, pressured, troubled, distressed, tormented, worried, frayed, hurried, rushed, stressy, uptight, hunted, stressed out, hag-ridden, hard-pressed, under pressure, under stress, in a state, hot and bothered, up against it, under the cosh, at the end of your tether, at the end of one's rope, with one's back up against the wall, hectic, anxious, tense, strained, frazzled, upset, careworn, jittery, edgy, stressed-out, shell-shocked, strung out, on the rack, pressurised, distraught … more
pressured
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pressure
  2. Synonyms:
      3. made, forced, coerced, compelled, required, drove, induced, obliged, pressed, pressurized, browbeat, caused, commanded, constrained, impelled, impressed, demanded, intimidated, obligated, ordered, pressurised, railroaded, strong-armed, willed, badgered, blackmailed, bludgeoned, bullied, dragooned, effected, had, harassed, hectored, hounded, imposed on, prevailed on, put up to, sandbagged, bulldozed, menaced, muscled, prevailed upon, steamrollered, put the screws on, put the squeeze on, put pressure on, influenced, prest, persuaded, pushed … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “He was expected to miss at least one spring start with a pressured oblique muscle, though the injury is not considered serious.”
pressuring
  1. present participle of pressure
  2. Synonyms:
      3. forcing, coercing, bulldozing, influencing, pressing, pressurising, pressurizing, badgering, compelling, dragooning, browbeating, driving, intimidating, persuading, pushing, bullying, hassling, hounding, impelling, pestering, squeezing, bothering, goading, harassing, harrying, impressing, nagging, obliging, prodding, urging, bludgeoning, brainwashing, constraining, obligating, railroading, blackjacking, hustling, muscling, sandbagging, insisting, making, politicking, selling, fast-talking, leaning on, prevailing on, putting pressure on, strong-arming, using pressure on, coming at … more
pressurizing
  1. present participle of pressurize
  2. Synonyms:
      3. pressuring, coercing, forcing, compelling, dragooning, browbeating, pressing, bullying, harassing, bulldozing, intimidating, railroading, driving, pushing, badgering, goading, hounding, making, blackjacking, prodding, influencing, nagging, persuading, harrying, bludgeoning, pestering, squeezing, hustling, brainwashing, constricting, squashing, compressing, strong-arming, leaning on, prevailing on, putting pressure on, using pressure on, press-ganging, fast-talking, putting the screws on, putting the squeeze on, twisting someone's arm, turning on the heat, breathing down someone's neck, impelling, constraining, threatening, obliging, menacing, urging … more
pressurised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pressurise
  2. Synonyms:
      3. influenced, convinced, manipulated, persuaded, inveigled, tempted, urged, beguiled, brainwashed, bribed, coaxed, coerced, controlled, directed, exploited, finagled, jockeyed, played, steered, swayed, compelled, counseled, counselled, dragooned, enticed, impelled, intimidated, lured, worked, wrought, leaned on, pressurized, worked upon, browbeat, browbeaten, cajoled, incited, inclined, induced, prejudiced, prevailed upon, pulled strings with, talked round, twisted someone's arm, brought round, coloured, suborned, turned, brought pressure to bear on, brought pressure to bear upon … more
pressurising
  1. present participle of pressurise
presspacked
  1. simple past tense and past participle of presspack
presspacking
  1. present participle of presspack
prested
  1. simple past tense and past participle of prest
  2. Synonyms:
      3. asked, enquired, queried, questioned, quizzed, grilled, interrogated, interviewed, probed, examined, inquired, investigated, pressed, scrutinized, canvassed, catechized, checked, cross-examined, inquisitioned, pumped, cross-questioned, enquired of, felt out, found out, hit, hat, hitten, hit up, made inquiries, needled, put a question to, requested information, requested information of, roasted, scrutinised, sought an answer, sought information, sought information of, sounded out, sweated, sweat, wanted to know, went over, buzzed, inquired of, picked one's brains, put out feelers, tested, tested the waters, popped the question … more
presting
  1. present participle of prest
  2. Synonyms:
      3. hitting, hitting up, putting a question to, sweating, putting out feelers, putting the screws to, putting through the wringer
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