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

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