What is another word for beseeching?

Pronunciation: [bɪsˈiːt͡ʃɪŋ] (IPA)

Beseeching is a powerful verb that means to implore or request something earnestly. Here are some other synonyms that can be used interchangeably for beseeching- imploring, begging, pleading, entreating, supplicating, adjuring, conjuring, praying, petitioning, soliciting, urging, importuning, imploringly. All these synonyms share a sense of intense pleading or supplication. Depending on the context and the tone of the conversation, any of these synonyms can be used instead of the word beseeching. Whether you are writing a formal or informal piece, having a rich vocabulary and good synonyms can help enhance the language and convey the intended meaning effectively.

Synonyms for Beseeching:

What are the hypernyms for Beseeching?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for beseeching?

Beseeching is a word that refers to earnestly asking someone for something. It connotes supplication, entreating, pleading, and imploring. Some antonyms for this word include commanding, demanding, dictating, ordering, and requesting. These words reflect a more assertive and authoritative tone, suggesting a desire for compliance without any indication of supplication. For example, demanding obedience implies that there is no room for refusal, while requesting a favor implies that there is an option to decline the request. In essence, antonyms for beseeching reflect a more forceful and uncompromising attitude than the former.

What are the antonyms for Beseeching?

Usage examples for Beseeching

When Lingard had implored her to marry him at once, during that hour on The Hanger, he had really been beseeching her to help him to escape.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
He spoke humbly, as one beseeching a favor.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The expression in his eyes changes from beseeching to despair as her silence continues, and he cries out hoarsely.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma

Famous quotes with Beseeching

  • Now I’m up at the front and Tall Bloke, Long Suit, is still Sieg-Heiling; women are still jiggling and beseeching. There is an unspoken acknowledgment that I am an interloper, that I am unlike everybody else there, neither Eritreanh or Ethiopian, and that there is a risk, therefore, that I am there to mock or judge or disrupt, and I’m capable of all those things.
    Russell Brand
  • Thou hast evoked in me profounder spells than the evoking one, thou face! For me, thou hast uncovered one infinite, dumb, beseeching countenance of mystery, underlying all the surfaces of visible time and space.
    Herman Melville
  • Apart from autograph hunters, I get... many letters from Hindus, beseeching me to adopt some form of mysticism, from young Americans, asking me where I think the line should be drawn in petting, and from Poles, urging me to admit that while all other nationalism may be bad that of Poland is wholly noble. I get letters from engineers who cannot understand Einstein, and from parsons who think that I cannot understand Genesis, from husbands whose wives have deserted them – not (they say) that that would matter, but the wives have taken the furniture with them, and what in these circumstances should an enlightened male do? ...I get letters (concerning whose genuineness I am suspicious) trying to get me to advocate abortion, and I get letters from young mothers asking my opinion of bottle-feeding.
    Bertrand Russell

Word of the Day

multitasker
The word "multitasker" usually refers to someone who can perform different tasks simultaneously. However, there are several antonyms for this word, which describe the opposite type...