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Imperious vs Pressing - What's the difference?

imperious | pressing | Synonyms |

Imperious is a synonym of pressing.


As adjectives the difference between imperious and pressing

is that imperious is domineering, arrogant, or overbearing while pressing is needing urgent attention.

As a noun pressing is

the application of pressure by a press or other means.

As a verb pressing is

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imperious

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
  • * 1866 – , translated by C. J. Hogarth
    • ...she glanced about her in an imperious , challenging sort of way, with looks and gestures that clearly were unstudied.
  • Urgent.
  • * 1891 –
    • Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with that gallant army which had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth.
  • (obsolete) Imperial or regal.
  • * 1895 –
    • She was quick, beautiful, imperious , while he was quiet, slow, and misty.

    Synonyms

    * (domineering) authoritarian, bossy, dictatorial, domineering, overbearing

    Related terms

    * imperial * imperialism * imperialistic * imperially * imperialness * imperium

    pressing

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Needing urgent attention.
  • * 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
    • Argentinians support the "Malvinas" cause, which is written into the constitution. But they are also worried about pressing economic problems such as inflation, rising crime and corruption.
  • * 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge , ch. 75,
    • “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”
  • Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
  • * 1891 , , The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. 2,
    • You are very pressing , Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
  • * 1908 , , "The Duel,"
    • He was pressing and persuasive.

    Derived terms

    * pressingly * pressingness

    Quotations

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The application of pressure by a press or other means.
  • A metal or plastic part made with a press.
  • The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
  • A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake.
  • The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
  • A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
  • Urgent insistence.

    • Verb

    (head)