pressingly
With a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
Adverb
- With a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
- I wrote pressingly to Mr. Boone to raise men with all expedition to join capt. Floyd. - 1998, Lyman Copeland Draper, The Life of Daniel Boone, page 310:
- Importantly. Often used with more in this sense.
- Why would you do that on a date, and why, more pressingly, would you do that at the beginning of a date?
- With enthusiasm. With friendly encouragement.
- In early 1993, further education staff were pressingly invited to seminars, workshops and training days to prepare for liberation from the local education authorities. - 2001 April 10, Gillian Healey, “Managing to...
Origin
Etymology tree English pressing Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-Germanic *-ê Proto-Germanic *-līkê Proto-West Germanic *-līkē Old English -līċe Middle English -ly English -ly English pressingly From pressing + -ly.
Forms
Synonyms
urgently importantly persistently persuasively enthusiastically