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pressuresome

pressuresome adjective: characterised or marked by pressure.

Adjective

pressuresome (comparative more pressuresome, superlative most pressuresome)

  1. (rare) Characterised or marked by pressure
    • In effect, your duty to love is to tune in to what the relationship itself is telling you, rather than to force another into being some conventionally romantic ideal, which would only make them want to escape such a pressuresome expectation.2006, Lyn Birkbeck, The Watkins Astrology Handbook: The Practical System of DIY Astrology
    • Both Mark Cohen (1977) and Marvin Harris (e.g., 1977, 1979) have argued that this is precisely the pressuresome situation within which the conditions are set for the adaptive shifts that lead to the beginnings of agriculture.2018, David J. Wilson, Indigenous South Americans Of The Past And Present

Synonyms of pressuresome

Forms of pressuresome

comparativemore pressuresome
superlativemost pressuresome

Origin of pressuresome

From pressure + -some.

Questions about pressuresome

What does pressuresome mean?
Pressuresome means characterised or marked by pressure.
What part of speech is pressuresome?
Pressuresome is an adjective.

Words near pressuresome in the dictionary

  1. pressuremetry
  2. pressureproof
  3. pressurer
  4. pressurers
  5. pressures
  6. pressuresome
  7. pressurewash
  8. pressurewashed
  9. pressurewasher
  10. pressurewashers
  11. pressurewashes

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