pressing

Examples

• All

• It's also behind many of the most pressing and urgent problems we face.

• Lisa joined me to decode today's teens and their most pressing issues.

  Rich Roll

• This afternoon, we're going to explore three of these, all pressing public health issues.

  Harvard University

• The goal is to solve one of the most pressing problems that biology has at that time.

• It's not just about that, although that's the most pressing issue for her.

• And so it would feel weird, I think, to leave such pressing issues unaddressed.

  Late Night with Seth Meyers

• The question of who watches the Watchers was certainly a pressing one over the following centuries.

• But they're no less pressing and they're no less important.

  Harvard University

• And if that's so, scalability, as it's called, becomes a pressing question for a firm like Selco.

• The patient has a pressing need for medical attention after the accident.

Synonyms

U

urgent

vspressing

337 2.9

Very important and needing action right away

has a milder degree of importance

Antonyms

U

unimportant

54 1.9

Not worth attention or notice

N

noncritical

1 4.1

Not serious or urgent and not part of a dangerous situation

How Urgent

life-threatening

66 4.3

critical

917 4.0

pressing

4.1

important

∞ 1.0

routine

263 1.0

Surface Forms

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