hard-pressed

1. 1.

   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”

   Synonymsdistressedhard putin a bad way

   Similartroubled

Questions about hard-pressed

What does hard-pressed mean?

hard-pressed means "facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty".

How many syllables are in hard-pressed?

hard-pressed has 2 syllables: hard--pressed. The stress falls on "hard-".

What is another word for hard-pressed?

Close synonyms include distressed, hard put, in a bad way. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hard-pressed a common word?

hard-pressed is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.