Grammatical class
Adjective
pressant
pressing, urgent, insistent
Details
Syllables
pres-sant
Phonetics
pʁɛ.sɑ̃
Grammatical class
Adjective
Freq. (books)
9768
Freq. (movies)
36069
Freq. (news)
21166
Variants
Sentences
Tu as quelque chose de plus pressant à faire ?
Do you have something else more pressing to do?
A1
Il m’a fallu satisfaire un besoin pressant.
I had to answer the call of nature.
B2
L'urgent, c'est le pressant avenir immédiat, le futur en train de se faire au présent.
Urgency is the insistent immediate future, the future in the process of making itself the present.
B2