different between decisive vs pressing

English

Etymology

From Middle French décisif

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??sa?s?v/
• Rhymes: -a?s?v

Adjective

decisive (comparative more decisive, superlative most decisive)

1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive.

   A decisive battle is fatal for one side's war chances

   A decisive vote
2. Marked by promptness and decision.

   A noble instance of this attribute of the decisive character. -J. Foster.

Synonyms

• decided
• positive
• conclusive

Antonyms

• indecisive

Derived terms

• decisively
• decisiveness

Related terms

• decidable
• decided

Translations

References

• decisive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

• decisive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• iDevices

Italian

Adjective

decisive

1. feminine plural of decisivo

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p??s??/

Adjective

pressing (comparative more pressing, superlative most pressing)

1. Needing urgent attention.
   • 2013, Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism' (in The Guardian, 3 January 2013)[1]

     Argentinians support the "Malvinas" cause, which is written into the constitution. But they are also worried about pressing economic problems such as inflation, rising crime and corruption.

   • 1841, Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge, ch. 75,

     “I come on business.—Private,” he added, with a glance at the man who stood looking on, “and very pressing business.”

2. Insistent, earnest, or persistent.
   • 1891, Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, ch. 2,

     You are very pressing, Basil, but I am afraid I must go.

   • 1908, Joseph Conrad, "The Duel,"

     He was pressing and persuasive.

Quotations

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pressing.

Derived terms

• pressingly
• pressingness

Translations

Noun

pressing (plural pressings)

1. The application of pressure by a press or other means.
2. A metal or plastic part made with a press.
3. The process of improving the appearance of clothing by improving creases and removing wrinkles with a press or an iron.
4. A memento preserved by pressing, folding, or drying between the leaves of a flat container, book, or folio. Usually done with a flower, ribbon, letter, or other soft, small keepsake.
5. The extraction of juice from fruit using a press.
6. A phonograph record; a number of records pressed at the same time.
7. Urgent insistence.

Verb

pressing

1. present participle of press

Anagrams

• Persings, Spigners, spersing, springes

French

Etymology

A pseudo-anglicism.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.si?/, /p?e.si?/

Noun

pressing m (plural pressings)

1. dry cleaning shop, a dry-cleaner's

Italian

Noun

pressing m (invariable)

1. (sports, especially soccer) Continuous and pressing action that does not allow the opposing team to catch its breath, aiming to remove the ball from its possession
2. (figuratively, transferred sense) Pressing (application of pressure)