Pressing vs Unbearable - What's the difference?
pressing | unbearable | Related terms |
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]
* 1841 , , Barnaby Rudge , ch. 75,
Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
* 1891 , , The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. 2,
* 1908 , , "The Duel,"
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.
Pressing is a related term of unbearable.
As adjectives the difference between pressing and unbearable
is that pressing is needing urgent attention while unbearable is so unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.As a noun pressing
is the application of pressure by a press or other means.As a verb pressing
is .pressing
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”
- You are very pressing , Basil, but I am afraid I must go.
- He was pressing and persuasive.