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imploring

imploring

6.1
Asking for help in a strong, pleading way
  • adjective
  • /ɪmˈplɔːrɪŋ/
translation icon : implorante
  • For the moth bends no more than the still imploring flame.

Examples

  • That or bleary, hopeless love, looking over the rows of heads and upturned eyes, imploring we're ready to snap at my ankles.

  • I am imploring our Congress to do so.

  • I'm sort of imploring you take baby steps,

  • In other words, I'm sort of imploring you take baby steps, baby steps into hiring.

  • She, you know, he, he was imploring her to give up on me and she wasn't having it.

  • His retreat into an imploring, that's his word imploring spiritual solipsism and an implied social impotence.

  • (IMPLORING)

    Norbit (2007)

  • The child's eyes were imploring as she begged her parents for a puppy.

  • He spoke with an imploring tone, urging them to reconsider their decision.

  • She gave him an imploring look, pleading silently for his understanding.

Synonyms

pleading
vsimploring
1 4.1

Asking for something in a strong, emotional way

focuses more on urgent request rather than on emotional tone
beseeching
vsimploring
  • Formal
6.1

Showing a strong, urgent request for help or forgiveness

is used generally to show a strong urgent request across situations
precative
vsimploring
9.9

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

is a stronger urgent emotional request used more in everyday speech
supplicatory
vsimploring
  • Formal
9.9

Asking for help in a humble, urgent way

stresses urgent pleading and intensity rather than humble prayerlike tone

Antonyms

indifferent
46 4.4

Not interested or showing no strong feeling about something

How Pleading

imploring
6.1
pleading
1 4.1

Surface Forms

imploring positive

Morphology

imploring = implore (transparent) = implore + ing

Formed by adding the productive suffix '-ing' to the verb 'implore', yielding the adjectival sense 'showing or expressing implore'.

Etymology

Imploring comes from the Latin implorare, from plorare meaning 'to cry' or 'to weep'. So to be imploring is like 'crying out' for help, and it describes a voice or look that is very pleading or begging.