hard-pressed
— Adjective
– English
~ facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage payment"; "found themselves in a bad way financially"
pressing
— Adjective
– English
~ compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"
pressor
— Adjective
– English
~ increasing (or tending to increase) blood pressure; "pressor reflexes"
low-pressure
— Adjective
– English
~ not forceful; "a low-pressure salesman"; "a low-pressure campaign"
high-pressure
— Adjective
– English
~ aggressively and persistently persuasive; "a hard-hitting advertising campaign"; "a high-pressure salesman"
prestigious
— Adjective
– English
~ exerting influence by reason of high status or prestige; "a prestigious professor at a prestigious university"
prestigious
— Adjective
– English
~ having an illustrious reputation; respected; "our esteemed leader"; "a prestigious author"
prestissimo
— Adjective
– English
~ (of tempo) as fast as possible
presto
— Adjective
– English
~ (of tempo) very fast
presumable
— Adjective
– English
~ capable of being inferred on slight grounds
presumptive
— Adjective
– English
~ affording reasonable grounds for belief or acceptance; "presumptive evidence"; "a strong presumptive case is made out"
presumptive
— Adjective
– English
~ having a reasonable basis for belief or acceptance; "the presumptive heir (or heir apparent)"
presumptuous
— Adjective
– English
~ excessively forward; "an assumptive person"; "on a subject like this it would be too assuming for me to decide"; "the duchess would not put up with presumptuous servants"
presymptomatic
— Adjective
– English
~ of or relating to the early phases of a disease when accurate diagnosis is not possible because symptoms of the disease have not yet appeared
preteen
— Adjective
– English
~ of or relating to or designed for children between the ages of 9 and 12; "a preteen party"; "preteen clothing"
pretend
— Adjective
– English
~ imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish"
pretended
— Adjective
– English
~ adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty"
pretentious
— Adjective
– English
~ intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
pretentious
— Adjective
– English
~ (of a display) tawdry or vulgar
pretentious
— Adjective
– English
~ making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction; "a pretentious country house"; "a pretentious fraud"; "a pretentious scholarly edition"