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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding, insistent |
| Synonyms: | burning, clamant, clamorous, crying, disturbing, dogged, earnest, exigent, harassing, imperative, instant, overly solicitous, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, pressing, solicitous, troublesome, urgent |
| Antonyms: | relaxed, undemanding, unimportant |
tʃə| Main Entry: | demanding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | challenging, urgent |
| Synonyms: | ambitious, backbreaker, bothersome, clamorous, critical, dictatorial, difficult, exacting, exhausting, exigent, fussy, grievous, hard, imperious, importunate, insistent, nagging, onerous, oppressive, pressing, querulous, strict, stringent, taxing, tough, troublesome, trying, wearing, weighty |
| Antonyms: | easy, facile, trivial, unchallenging, undemanding |
| Main Entry: | dire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | urgent; crucial |
| Synonyms: | acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, climacteric, critical, crying, desperate, drastic, exigent, extreme, immoderate, imperative, importunate, instant, pressing |
| Antonyms: | trivial, unimportant |
Example Sentences
- The palace was fairly besieged all day by importunate persons appealing for some last favor before the curtain drops.
- Honeywood is around, the importunate become fortunate.
- Willy gives away his meager inheritance to the needy and importunate.
| Main Entry: | exigent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | urgent, pressing |
| Synonyms: | acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, constraining, critical, crucial, crying, imperative, importunate, insistent, instant, menacing, necessary, needful, threatening |
| Antonyms: | ordinary, unpressured, usual |
| Main Entry: | imperative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
| Synonyms: | acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, compulsory, critical, crucial, crying, essential, exigent, immediate, important, importunate, indispensable, inescapable, insistent, instant, no turning back, obligatory, pressing, urgent, vital |
| Antonyms: | inessential, optional, secondary, unnecessary, voluntary |
| Main Entry: | important |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | valuable, substantial |
| Synonyms: | big, big-league, chief, considerable, conspicuous, critical, crucial, decisive, determining, earnest, essential, esteemed, exceptional, exigent, extensive, far-reaching, foremost, front-page, grave, great, heavy, imperative, importunate, influential, large, marked, material, mattering much, meaningful, momentous, necessary, of moment, of note, of substance, paramount, ponderous, pressing, primary, principal, relevant, salient, serious, signal, significant, something, standout, urgent, vital, weighty |
| Antonyms: | inappreciable, insignificant, little, nonessential, small, trivial, unimportant, unsubstantial |
| Main Entry: | insatiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious, wanting |
| Synonyms: | clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent, gluttonous, greedy, importunate, insatiate, insistent, intemperate, pressing, quenchless, rapacious, ravenous, unappeasable, unquenchable, unsatisfiable, unsatisfied, urgent, yearning |
| Antonyms: | fulfilled, full, pleased, satiable, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | insistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding |
| Synonyms: | assertive, burning, clamant, clamorous, continuous, crying, dire, dogged, emphatic, exigent, forceful, imperative, imperious, importunate, incessant, obstinate, peremptory, perseverant, persevering, persistent, pressing, reiterative, resolute, resounding, unrelenting, urgent |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, indifferent, lenient, tolerant |
| Main Entry: | instant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | immediate, urgent |
| Synonyms: | burning*, clamant, contemporary, crying*, current, dire, direct, exigent, existent, extant, fast, imperative, importunate, insistent, instantaneous, on-the-spot, present, present-day, pressing, prompt, quick, split-second |
| Antonyms: | delayed, eventual, late, later |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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