high-pressure

1. 1.

   aggressively and persistently persuasive

   “a hard-hitting advertising campaign”

   “a high-pressure salesman”

   Synonymshard-hitting

   Similaraggressive

Questions about high-pressure

What does high-pressure mean?

high-pressure means "aggressively and persistently persuasive".

How many syllables are in high-pressure?

high-pressure has 3 syllables: high--pres-sure. The stress falls on "high-".

What is another word for high-pressure?

Close synonyms include hard-hitting. 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 high-pressure a common word?

high-pressure 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.