Exact Match:
Synonyms:
Related Words:
- importunity
collapse - insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree" related words >
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- blandishment,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- chafing,
- coaxing,
- demanding,
- disquieting,
- distressful,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- dunning,
- exasperating,
- fretting,
- galling,
- harassing,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importune,
- importunity,
- insistent,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- nagging,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plying,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- provoking,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- upsetting,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wheedling,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- aggravating,
- annoying,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- cajoling,
- choiceless,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- coaxing,
- compulsory,
- controlled,
- crying,
- demanding,
- disturbing,
- draining,
- dunning,
- exacting,
- exasperating,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- firm-minded,
- forward,
- galling,
- grasping,
- harassing,
- imperative,
- importune,
- independent,
- insistent,
- instant,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- loud,
- mandatory,
- nagging,
- necessary,
- necessitous,
- obligatory,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- pressing,
- provoking,
- pushy,
- self-asserting,
- self-assertive,
- self-controlled,
- self-expressive,
- self-possessed,
- self-restrained,
- strong-minded,
- strong-willed,
- taxing,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- urgent,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wheedling,
- without choice,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- urgency
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- pressing importance requiring speedy action; "the urgency of his need"
- an urgent situation calling for prompt action; "I'll be there, barring any urgencies"; "they departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs"
- the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity related words >
- antecedence,
- antecedency,
- anteposition,
- anteriority,
- blandishment,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- case of need,
- clutch,
- coaxing,
- compulsion,
- constraint,
- crisis,
- crunch,
- demandingness,
- dire necessity,
- dominion,
- drive,
- dunning,
- emergency,
- exigence,
- exigency,
- extremity,
- front position,
- high pressure,
- immediacy,
- imperative,
- imperativeness,
- importance,
- importunacy,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- insistence,
- matter of necessity,
- nagging,
- necessity,
- need,
- persistence,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- pestering,
- pinch,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- precedence,
- precedency,
- preceding,
- precession,
- precursor,
- predicament,
- preference,
- prefixation,
- prelude,
- press,
- pressing,
- pressingness,
- pressure,
- priority,
- prothesis,
- push,
- rash impulse,
- seriousness,
- stress,
- superiority,
- teasing,
- tension,
- the lead,
- top priority,
- urge,
- urgent need,
- urging,
- wheedling
- pressing
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- a metal or plastic part that is made by a mechanical press
- compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair" related words >
- abetment,
- actuating,
- acute,
- animating,
- blandishment,
- burning,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- causal,
- causative,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- coactive,
- coaxing,
- compelling,
- compulsatory,
- compulsive,
- compulsory,
- concentration,
- constraining,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- decoction,
- demanding,
- directive,
- distillation,
- draining,
- driving,
- dunning,
- encouragement,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- expression,
- extortionate,
- goading,
- grasping,
- grave,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- impelling,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- important,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- impulsive,
- inducive,
- infusion,
- insistence,
- insistent,
- instance,
- instant,
- irresistible,
- loud,
- major,
- momentous,
- motivating,
- motivational,
- motive,
- moving,
- nagging,
- needling,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- pestering,
- pivotal,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- portentous,
- pressure,
- pricking,
- prodding,
- profound,
- rendering,
- rendition,
- restraining,
- serious,
- significant,
- soaking,
- spurring,
- squeezing,
- steeping,
- taxing,
- teasing,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- vital,
- wheedling
- adverse criticism,
- aggravating,
- animadversion,
- annoying,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- blandishment,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- coaxing,
- criticism,
- demanding,
- disturbing,
- dunning,
- exasperating,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- flak,
- galling,
- hairsplitting,
- harassing,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importune,
- importunity,
- imputation,
- insistent,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irritating,
- knock,
- nagging,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- obloquy,
- overcriticalness,
- pesky,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- pettifogging,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- priggishness,
- provoking,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- reflection,
- reproachfulness,
- slam,
- stricture,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- teasing,
- tiresome,
- tormenting,
- trichoschistism,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wheedling,
- worrisome,
- worrying
- adverse criticism,
- animadversion,
- aspersion,
- bad notices,
- bad press,
- blandishment,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- captious,
- captiousness,
- carping,
- catty,
- cavil,
- caviling,
- censoriousness,
- chronic,
- coaxing,
- continual,
- continuous,
- critical,
- criticism,
- cynical,
- demanding,
- distressing,
- dunning,
- exception,
- faultfinding,
- flak,
- fretful,
- hairsplitting,
- haunting,
- hit,
- home thrust,
- hostile criticism,
- hypercritical,
- hypercriticalness,
- hypercriticism,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- imputation,
- indelible,
- insistent,
- knock,
- naggy,
- niggle,
- niggling,
- nit,
- nit-picking,
- obloquy,
- obsessive,
- overcritical,
- overcriticalness,
- peevish,
- persistent,
- pestering,
- pettifogging,
- pettish,
- petulant,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- priggishness,
- querulous,
- quibble,
- quibbling,
- rap,
- recurrent,
- recurring,
- reflection,
- relentless,
- reproachfulness,
- resentful,
- shrewish,
- slam,
- stricture,
- swipe,
- taking exception,
- teasing,
- trichoschistic,
- trichoschistism,
- ultracritical,
- unforgettable,
- unrelenting,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- vixenish,
- vixenly,
- wheedling
- active,
- actuating,
- acute,
- animating,
- ardent,
- begging,
- burning,
- cajoling,
- causal,
- causative,
- choiceless,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- coaxing,
- compelling,
- compulsory,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- cursory,
- demanding,
- directive,
- draining,
- driving,
- dunning,
- earnest,
- emergency,
- emphatic,
- energetic,
- enthusiastic,
- exacting,
- exciting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- expeditious,
- extortionate,
- fervent,
- festinate,
- feverish,
- fiery,
- firm,
- flying,
- forceful,
- furious,
- glowing,
- grasping,
- hasty,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- hurried,
- immediate,
- impassioned,
- impelling,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- important,
- importunate,
- impulsive,
- inducive,
- insistent,
- instant,
- last-minute,
- life-and-death,
- life-or-death,
- loud,
- mandatory,
- motivating,
- motivational,
- motive,
- moving,
- nagging,
- necessary,
- necessitous,
- obligatory,
- on the spot,
- passing,
- passionate,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- pestering,
- pivotal,
- plaguing,
- pressing,
- prompt,
- provoking,
- quick,
- rush,
- serious,
- slap-bang,
- slapdash,
- snap,
- solicitous,
- speedy,
- stimulating,
- stirring,
- superficial,
- swift,
- taxing,
- teasing,
- tenacious,
- vehement,
- vital,
- warm,
- wheedling,
- without choice
- demanding
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- requiring more than usually expected or thought due; especially great patience and effort and skill; "found the job very demanding"; "a baby can be so demanding" related words >
- Herculean,
- Spartan,
- Spartanic,
- abstruse,
- accurate,
- arduous,
- astringent,
- attentive,
- austere,
- authoritarian,
- brutal,
- burdensome,
- cajoling,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- close,
- coaxing,
- complex,
- conscientious,
- correct,
- critical,
- crying,
- delicate,
- detailed,
- difficile,
- difficult,
- dour,
- draining,
- dunning,
- exact,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- exquisite,
- extortionate,
- fine,
- finical,
- finicking,
- finicky,
- formidable,
- fussy,
- grasping,
- grievous,
- grim,
- hairy,
- hard,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- harsh,
- imperative,
- importunate,
- insistent,
- instant,
- intricate,
- jawbreaking,
- knotted,
- knotty,
- laborious,
- loud,
- mean,
- meticulous,
- minute,
- nagging,
- narrow,
- nice,
- no picnic,
- not easy,
- operose,
- oppressive,
- particular,
- persistent,
- pertinacious,
- pestering,
- plaguing,
- precise,
- precisianistic,
- precisionistic,
- pressing,
- punctilious,
- punctual,
- refined,
- religious,
- rigid,
- rigorous,
- rough,
- rugged,
- scrupulous,
- scrutinizing,
- set with thorns,
- severe,
- spiny,
- steep,
- stern,
- strenuous,
- strict,
- stringent,
- subtle,
- taxing,
- teasing,
- thorny,
- ticklish,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- tricky,
- trying,
- unsparing,
- uphill,
- urgent,
- weighty,
- wheedling,
- wicked
- insistent
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- persistently continual; "the bluejay's insistent cry" related words >
- acute,
- assertive,
- assiduous,
- burning,
- cajoling,
- clamant,
- clamorous,
- coaxing,
- compelling,
- constant,
- continuing,
- critical,
- crucial,
- crying,
- demanding,
- determined,
- diligent,
- dire,
- dogged,
- draining,
- dunning,
- emphatic,
- enduring,
- exacting,
- exigent,
- exorbitant,
- extortionate,
- faithful,
- firm,
- forceful,
- grasping,
- high-pressure,
- high-priority,
- immutable,
- imperative,
- imperious,
- importunate,
- inalterable,
- indefatigable,
- indomitable,
- industrious,
- inexorable,
- instant,
- invincible,
- lasting,
- loud,
- loyal,
- nagging,
- never-tiring,
- obstinate,
- obtrusive,
- patient,
- patient as Job,
- permanent,
- perseverant,
- persevering,
- persistent,
- persisting,
- pertinacious,
- pestering,
- pivotal,
- plaguing,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupied,
- pressing,
- rapt,
- relentless,
- resolute,
- resounding,
- sedulous,
- single-minded,
- sleepless,
- slogging,
- stable,
- steadfast,
- steady,
- stubborn,
- taxing,
- teasing,
- tenacious,
- tireless,
- unabating,
- uncompromising,
- unconquerable,
- undaunted,
- undiscouraged,
- undrooping,
- unfailing,
- unfaltering,
- unflagging,
- unflinching,
- unintermitting,
- uninterrupted,
- unnodding,
- unrelaxing,
- unrelenting,
- unremitting,
- unsleeping,
- unswerving,
- untiring,
- unwavering,
- unwearied,
- unwearying,
- unwinking,
- unyielding,
- urgent,
- utterly attentive,
- weariless,
- wheedling
- blandishment
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- the act of urging by means of teasing or flattery
- flattery intended to persuade related words >
- adulation,
- agacerie,
- allure,
- allurement,
- appeal,
- artful endearments,
- attraction,
- attractiveness,
- beguilement,
- beguiling,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- blandishments,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- captivation,
- caress,
- charisma,
- charm,
- charmingness,
- coaxing,
- come-hither,
- compliment,
- conning,
- dunning,
- enchantment,
- endearment,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- enthrallment,
- enticement,
- entrapment,
- exhortation,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fascination,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- flirtation,
- forbidden fruit,
- glamour,
- grease,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- incense,
- inducement,
- interest,
- inveiglement,
- invitation,
- jawboning,
- lobbying,
- magnetism,
- nagging,
- oil,
- palaver,
- pat,
- persuasion,
- pestering,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- seducement,
- seduction,
- seductiveness,
- selling,
- sex appeal,
- snaring,
- snow job,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- solicitation,
- suasion,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- tantalization,
- teasing,
- temptation,
- urgency,
- urging,
- wheedling,
- winning ways,
- winsomeness,
- witchery,
- wooing,
- working on
- adulation,
- adulatory,
- allurement,
- bland,
- blandishing,
- blandishment,
- blarney,
- blarneying,
- bunkum,
- buttery,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- coaxing,
- compliment,
- complimentary,
- conning,
- courtierly,
- courtly,
- demanding,
- dunning,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhortation,
- exhortative,
- exhortatory,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- fair-spoken,
- fawning,
- fine-spoken,
- flattering,
- flattery,
- fulsome,
- grease,
- gushing,
- honey-mouthed,
- honey-tongued,
- honeyed,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- hortative,
- hortatory,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- incense,
- inducement,
- insincere,
- insinuating,
- insistent,
- jawboning,
- lobbying,
- mealymouthed,
- nagging,
- obsequious,
- oil,
- oily,
- oily-tongued,
- palaver,
- persuading,
- persuasion,
- persuasive,
- pestering,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- selling,
- slimy,
- slobbery,
- smarmy,
- smooth,
- smooth-spoken,
- smooth-tongued,
- snow job,
- soap,
- soapy,
- soft soap,
- soft-soaping,
- solicitation,
- suasion,
- suasive,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet talk,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- sycophantic,
- teasing,
- unctuous,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- working on
- teasing
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- playful vexation; "the parody was just a form of teasing"
- arousing sexual desire without intending to satisfy it; "her lazy teasing smile" related words >
- aggravating,
- alluring,
- annoying,
- appealing,
- appetizing,
- attractive,
- bantering,
- beguiling,
- bewitching,
- blandishing,
- blandishment,
- booing,
- bothering,
- bothersome,
- buttonholing,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- cajoling,
- captivating,
- catcalling,
- catching,
- chaffing,
- charismatic,
- charming,
- coaxing,
- come-hither,
- coquettish,
- demanding,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- disappointing,
- disturbing,
- dunning,
- enchanting,
- engaging,
- enravishing,
- enthralling,
- enticing,
- entrancing,
- exasperating,
- exciting,
- exotic,
- falling short,
- fascinating,
- fetching,
- fleering,
- flippant,
- flirtatious,
- fooling,
- galling,
- glamorous,
- grinning,
- harassing,
- hazing,
- hissing,
- hooting,
- hypnotic,
- importunate,
- importunateness,
- importune,
- importunity,
- insistent,
- interesting,
- intriguing,
- inviting,
- irking,
- irksome,
- irresistible,
- irritating,
- jeering,
- jesting,
- joking,
- jollying,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- leering,
- mesmeric,
- mocking,
- mouth-watering,
- nagging,
- panning,
- pesky,
- pestering,
- pestiferous,
- pestilent,
- pestilential,
- piquant,
- plaguesome,
- plaguey,
- plaguing,
- plying,
- prepossessing,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- provocative,
- provoking,
- provoquant,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- rallying,
- ravishing,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- scoffing,
- second best,
- seducing,
- seductive,
- siren,
- sirenic,
- smart,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- spellbinding,
- spellful,
- taking,
- tantalizing,
- taunting,
- tempting,
- tickling,
- tiresome,
- titillating,
- titillative,
- tormenting,
- troublesome,
- troubling,
- twitting,
- unsatisfactory,
- urgency,
- urgent,
- urging,
- vexatious,
- vexing,
- wearisome,
- wheedling,
- winning,
- winsome,
- witching,
- worrisome,
- worrying
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