Word.ws English Dictionary

high-pressure

high-pressure adjective: operating at relatively high pressure, such as several times atmospheric pressure.

Adjective

high-pressure (comparative higher-pressure, superlative highest-pressure)

  1. Operating at relatively high pressure, such as several times atmospheric pressure.
    Antonyms:
    low-pressure
  2. (figuratively) Tense; stressful.
    • High-pressure situations can lead to nervous breakdowns.
  3. (figuratively) Involving much persuasion.
    • High-pressure salesmanship on the part of the Electro-Motive subsidiary of the General Motors Corporation, which has built by far the largest proportion of the American diesels to date, there certainly has been - to such an extent, indeed, as to compel the old-established builders of steam...1961 February, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 85

Verb

high-pressure (third-person singular simple present high-pressures, present participle high-pressuring, simple past and past participle high-pressured)

  1. (idiomatic, informal, transitive) To coerce someone to perform or carry out an action by applying a high degree of psychological pressure.

high-pressure meaning in Malayalam

high-pressure in Malayalam

forceful, insistent, persistent
വലിയ സമ്മർദ്ദവും സ്വാധീനവും ചെലുത്തുന്ന, കരുത്തുറ്റ, ഊര്‍ജ്ജസ്വിയായ, ശക്തിയേറിയ, തീവ്ര, നിർബ്ബന്ധബുദ്ധിയായ

Antonyms of high-pressure

Forms of high-pressure

Adjective
comparativehigher-pressure
superlativehighest-pressure
Verb
third-person singular presenthigh-pressures
present participlehigh-pressuring
past participlehigh-pressured
pasthigh-pressured

Phrases with high-pressure

Questions about high-pressure

What does high-pressure mean?
High-pressure means operating at relatively high pressure, such as several times atmospheric pressure.
What is high-pressure in Malayalam?
High-pressure in Malayalam is വലിയ സമ്മർദ്ദവും സ്വാധീനവും ചെലുത്തുന്ന, കരുത്തുറ്റ, ഊര്‍ജ്ജസ്വിയായ. See High-pressure meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is high-pressure?
High-pressure can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near high-pressure in the dictionary

  1. high-pitched
  2. high-post
  3. high-power
  4. high-powered
  5. high-precision
  6. high-pressure
  7. high-pressure liquid chromatography
  8. high-pressured
  9. high-pressures
  10. high-pressuring
  11. high-priced

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: high-pressure (page history and authors); high-pressure (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “high-pressure.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/high-pressure. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.