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more pressing

ADJECTIVE

important; urgent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

acute compelling critical crucial demanding dire immediate imperative insistent serious vital

STRONG

burning claiming constraining crying distressing exacting forcing instant obliging requiring

WEAK

clamant clamorous exigent heat-on high-priority hurry-up importunate life-and-death

Antonyms

STRONGEST

dull inessential optional trivial uncritical unimportant

WEAK

insignificant

Example Sentences

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But none more pressing than the one that sealed his side's place under the Wembley arch.

From BBC • May 14, 2026

The more pressing stock catalyst will be coming cancer data, as Goldman Sachs analyst Salveen Richter pointed out last week.

From Barron's • May 8, 2026

For child-free investors, the more pressing question is: “Who decides?”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 27, 2026

Tom has a more pressing motive than soothing petulance over illustrations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

Theo, with whom I have never had a conversation about matters more pressing than which of our fellow boarders hogged all the hot water.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse