hard pressed
adjective
Roget 684:
hasty,
hurried,
brusque;
scrambling,
cursory,
precipitate,
headlong,
furious,
boisterous,
impetuous,
hotheaded;
feverish,
fussy;
pushing.
in haste,
in a hurry
etc.
n.;
in hot haste,
in all haste;
breathless,
pressed for time,
hard pressed,
urgent.
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Roget 704:
difficult,
not easy,
hard,
tough;
troublesome,
toilsome,
irksome;
operose†,
laborious,
onerous,
arduous,
Herculean,
formidable;
sooner said than done;
more easily said than done,
easier said than done.
difficult to deal with,
hard to deal with;
ill-conditioned,
crabbed,
crabby;
not to be handled with kid gloves,
not made with rose water.
awkward,
unwieldy,
unmanageable;
intractable,
stubborn
etc.
(obstinate)
606;
perverse,
refractory,
plaguy†,
trying,
thorny,
rugged;
knotted,
knotty;
invious†;
pathless,
trackless;
labyrinthine
etc.
(convoluted)
248;
intricate,
complicated
etc.
(tangled)
59;
impracticable
etc.
(impossible)
471;
not feasible
etc.
470;
desperate
etc.
(hopeless)
859.
embarrassing,
perplexing
etc.
(uncertain)
475;
delicate,
ticklish,
critical;
beset with difficulties,
full of difficulties,
surrounded by difficulties,
entangled by difficulties,
encompassed with difficulties.
under a difficulty;
in a box;
in difficulty,
in hot water,
in the suds,
in a cleft stick,
in a fix,
in the wrong box,
in a scrape
etc.
n.,
in deep water,
in a fine pickle;
in extremis;
between two stools,
between Scylla and Charybdis;
surrounded by shoals,
surrounded by breakers,
surrounded by quicksands;
at cross purposes;
not out of the wood.
reduced to straits;
hard pressed,
sorely pressed;
run hard;
pinched,
put to it,
straitened;
hard up,
hard put to it,
hard set;
put to one's shifts;
puzzled,
at a loss,
etc.
(uncertain)
475;
at the end of one's tether,
at the end of one's rope,
at one's wit's end,
at a nonplus,
at a standstill;
graveled,
nonplused,
nonplussed,
stranded,
aground;
stuck fast,
set fast;
up a tree,
at bay,
aux abois [Fr.],
driven into a corner,
driven from pillar to post,
driven to extremity,
driven to one's wit's end,
driven to the wall;
au bout de son Latin;
out of one's depth;
thrown out.
accomplished with difficulty;
hard-fought,
hard-earned.
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Roget 706:
hindering
etc.
v.;
obstructive,
obstruent†;
impeditive†,
impedient†;
intercipient†;
prophylactic
etc.
(remedial)
662;
impedimentary.
in the way of,
unfavorable;
onerous,
burdensome;
cumbrous,
cumbersome;
obtrusive.
hindered
etc.
v.;
windbound†,
waterlogged,
heavy laden;
hard pressed.
unassisted
etc.
(assist)
etc.
707;
single-handed,
alone;
deserted
etc.
624.
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Moby thesaurus: at the double, crowded, desperate, double-quick, double-time, hard up, hard-pressed, hard-pushed, hard-run, hurried, in desperate straits, in extremis, in extremities, on the double, pinched, pressed, pressed for time, pushed, rushed, sorely pressed, straitened, up against it ... show more.
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