pressingly

1. 1.

   in a pressing manner

Questions about pressingly

What does pressingly mean?

pressingly means "in a pressing manner".

How many syllables are in pressingly?

pressingly has 3 syllables and divides as pres-sin-gly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is pressingly a common word?

pressingly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.