pressingly

With a sense of urgency, because it is very important.

Adverb

  1. 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:
  2. 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?
  3. 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

more pressingly most pressingly

Synonyms

urgently importantly persistently persuasively enthusiastically

Antonyms

apathetically half-heartedly

Derived

unpressingly