Exact Match:
- urging
- the act of earnestly supporting or encouraging
Synonyms:
- no synonyms found
Related Words:
- recommendation
collapse - any quality or characteristic that gains a person a favorable reception or acceptance or admission; "her pleasant personality is already a recommendation"; "his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society"
- something (as a course of action) that is recommended as advisable
- something that recommends (or expresses commendation) of a person or thing as worthy or desirable related words >
- importunity
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- 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
- insistence
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- the act of insisting on something; "insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position"
- continual and persistent demands related words >
- abetment,
- application,
- assiduity,
- assiduousness,
- bulldog tenacity,
- concentration,
- constancy,
- demandingness,
- diligence,
- dogged perseverance,
- doggedness,
- encouragement,
- endurance,
- engrossment,
- exigency,
- fidelity,
- goading,
- importunacy,
- importunateness,
- importunity,
- indefatigability,
- industriousness,
- industry,
- insistency,
- instance,
- loyalty,
- needling,
- obstinacy,
- patience,
- patience of Job,
- permanence,
- perseverance,
- persistence,
- persistency,
- pertinaciousness,
- pertinacity,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- preoccupation,
- pressing,
- pressingness,
- pressure,
- pricking,
- prodding,
- relentlessness,
- resolution,
- sedulity,
- sedulousness,
- single-mindedness,
- singleness of purpose,
- slogging,
- spurring,
- stability,
- stamina,
- staying power,
- steadfastness,
- steadiness,
- stick-to-itiveness,
- stubbornness,
- tenaciousness,
- tenacity,
- tirelessness,
- unremittingness,
- unswerving attention,
- urgency,
- urging
- 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
- encouragement
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- the expression of approval and support
- the feeling of being encouraged related words >
- abetment,
- advocacy,
- aegis,
- aid,
- aid and comfort,
- animating,
- animation,
- assurance,
- auspices,
- backing,
- bait,
- boost,
- bribe,
- care,
- carrot,
- championship,
- charity,
- cheering,
- comfort,
- condolence,
- consolation,
- countenance,
- easement,
- emboldening,
- exhortation,
- exhorting,
- favor,
- fillip,
- fosterage,
- goading,
- goodwill,
- guidance,
- heartening,
- help,
- incentive,
- incitement,
- inciting,
- inducement,
- insistence,
- inspiration,
- inspiring,
- inspiriting,
- inspiritment,
- instance,
- interest,
- invitation,
- lure,
- needling,
- patronage,
- payment,
- pep talk,
- percentage,
- persuasive,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- pricking,
- prodding,
- profit,
- promoting,
- promotion,
- provocation,
- reassurance,
- reassuring,
- relief,
- reward,
- seconding,
- shred of comfort,
- solace,
- solacement,
- sponsorship,
- spur,
- spurring,
- stimulating,
- stimulation,
- stimulative,
- stimulus,
- support,
- supporting,
- sweetener,
- sweetening,
- sympathy,
- tutelage,
- urging,
- whet
- activator,
- aggravation,
- agitation,
- animation,
- animator,
- antecedents,
- arousal,
- arouser,
- arousing,
- bait,
- base,
- basis,
- boost,
- bribe,
- call,
- carrot,
- catalyst,
- causation,
- cause,
- cause and effect,
- determinant,
- determinative,
- electrification,
- element,
- encouragement,
- energizer,
- etiology,
- exacerbation,
- exasperation,
- excitation,
- excitement,
- exhilaration,
- factor,
- fillip,
- fomentation,
- galvanization,
- goad,
- ground,
- grounds,
- human dynamo,
- impetus,
- impulse,
- incentive,
- incitation,
- incitement,
- inducement,
- inflammation,
- infuriation,
- instigation,
- interest,
- invitation,
- irritation,
- lathering up,
- life,
- lure,
- motivating force,
- motivation,
- motive,
- motive power,
- occasion,
- payment,
- percentage,
- persuasive,
- perturbation,
- principle,
- profit,
- propellant,
- provocation,
- provocative,
- push,
- restorative,
- reward,
- spark plug,
- spur,
- steaming up,
- stimulant,
- stimulation,
- stimulative,
- stimulator,
- stirring,
- stirring up,
- sweetener,
- sweetening,
- tonic,
- urging,
- whet,
- whipping up,
- working up
- 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
- incitement
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- something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action related words >
- aggravation,
- agitating,
- agitation,
- animation,
- arousal,
- arousing,
- awakening,
- bait,
- bribe,
- carrot,
- clout,
- compulsion,
- drive,
- driving force,
- electrification,
- encouragement,
- enticement,
- exacerbation,
- exasperation,
- excitation,
- excitement,
- exciting,
- exhilaration,
- exhortation,
- exhorting,
- fillip,
- firing,
- fomentation,
- fomenting,
- galvanization,
- goading,
- impellent,
- impelling force,
- impetus,
- impulse,
- impulsion,
- incentive,
- incitation,
- inducement,
- inflaming,
- inflammation,
- influence,
- influencing,
- infuriation,
- inspiration,
- instigating,
- instigation,
- interest,
- invitation,
- irresistible force,
- irritation,
- lathering up,
- lure,
- moment,
- momentum,
- motivation,
- motive power,
- mover,
- needling,
- payment,
- pep rally,
- pep talk,
- percentage,
- persuasion,
- persuasive,
- perturbation,
- power,
- pricking,
- prodding,
- profit,
- prompting,
- propulsion,
- provocation,
- provoking,
- rabble-rousing,
- rallying,
- reward,
- spurring,
- steaming up,
- stimulation,
- stimulative,
- stimulus,
- stirring,
- stirring up,
- stirring-up,
- sweetener,
- sweetening,
- temptation,
- thrust,
- urging,
- wakening,
- whet,
- whipping,
- whipping up,
- working up
- abetment,
- adduce,
- anatomize,
- article,
- as an example,
- aspect,
- atomize,
- call to mind,
- case,
- case history,
- case in point,
- circumstantiate,
- citation,
- cite,
- cite a particular,
- count,
- cross reference,
- datum,
- demonstrate,
- demonstration,
- descend to particulars,
- detail,
- document,
- element,
- emblem,
- encouragement,
- enter into detail,
- event,
- example,
- exemplar,
- exemplification,
- exemplify,
- explanation,
- exponent,
- facet,
- fact,
- factor,
- for example,
- for instance,
- give a for-instance,
- give full particulars,
- goading,
- ground,
- illustrate,
- illustration,
- improper suggestion,
- incidental,
- indecent proposal,
- insistence,
- item,
- itemize,
- matter,
- minor detail,
- minutia,
- minutiae,
- motion,
- name,
- needling,
- object lesson,
- occurrence,
- particular,
- particularize,
- pass,
- point,
- precedent,
- pressing,
- pressure,
- pricking,
- prodding,
- proof,
- proposal,
- proposition,
- quotation,
- quote,
- reason,
- reference,
- regard,
- relevant instance,
- representative,
- request,
- resolution,
- respect,
- sample,
- sampling,
- say,
- sexual advance,
- specify,
- specimen,
- spell out,
- spurring,
- substantiate,
- suggestion,
- symbol,
- thing,
- type,
- typical example,
- urging
- 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
- spur
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- a sharp prod fixed to a rider's heel and used to urge a horse onward; "cowboys know not to squat with their spurs on"
- tubular extension at the base of the corolla in some flowers
- any sharply pointed projection
- goad with spurs; "the rider spurred his horse"
- equip with spurs; "spur horses"
- strike with a spur
- give heart or courage to
- incite or stimulate; "The Academy was formed to spur research" related words >
- accelerate,
- activation,
- actuation,
- aculeate,
- acuminate,
- animate,
- appendage,
- arm,
- arouse,
- awaken,
- barb,
- barbel,
- barbule,
- bill,
- bough,
- branch,
- brashly,
- breakwater,
- bundle,
- bustle,
- cage,
- cape,
- catalyst,
- cheer on,
- chersonese,
- cog,
- comb,
- coral reef,
- corral,
- countenance,
- crag,
- crest,
- crowd,
- cuspidate,
- delta,
- dispatch,
- drive,
- drive on,
- drove,
- edge,
- egg on,
- encourage,
- encouragement,
- excitant,
- excite,
- exhort,
- expedite,
- fang,
- favor,
- file,
- flog,
- foreland,
- forward,
- gad,
- gadfly,
- gaff,
- goad,
- goad on,
- grind,
- hand,
- harrow,
- haste,
- hasten,
- hasten on,
- hastily,
- head,
- headland,
- herd,
- hie on,
- hilltop,
- hone,
- hook,
- hound on,
- hurry,
- hurry along,
- hurry on,
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