beseeching

6.1

Showing a strong, urgent request for help or forgiveness

adjective
/bɪˈsiːtʃɪŋ/

Formal

: suplicante

His beseeching voice made it hard to refuse his request.

Examples

She gave him a beseeching look, silently asking for forgiveness.
She gave him a beseeching look.
The child stood by the door with beseeching eyes, hoping to be allowed outside.
His beseeching tone made her reconsider.
The puppy gave me a beseeching look, hoping I would share my food.
With a beseeching tone, she asked her parents for permission to go to the party.
His beseeching eyes revealed how desperately he wanted help.

Synonyms

pleading

vsbeseeching

1 4.1

Asking for something in a strong, emotional way

is more about urgent earnest request than emotional intensity

imploring

vsbeseeching

6.1

Asking for help in a strong, pleading way

is urgent but adds a deeper more earnest plea

precative

vsbeseeching

9.9

To make a humble, urgent request, often like a prayer

is less formal and shows urgent earnest appeal in everyday use

Antonyms

indifferent

46 4.4

Not interested or showing no strong feeling about something

dismissive

43 5.6

Acting as if someone or something is not important

How Pleading

desperate

704 3.3

supplicatory

Formal

9.9

beseeching

Formal

6.1

imploring

6.1

pleading

1 4.1

Surface Forms

beseeching positive

Morphology

beseeching = beseech (transparent) = beseech + ing

Formed by the regular adjectival/participial -ing from the verb 'beseech', so the meaning is directly derived from the verb.

Etymology

Beseeching comes from Old English where people added be- to seek, and seek means 'to look for' or 'to ask'. So beseeching is a stronger, urgent kind of 'ask', which is why it means pleading or begging.