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beseeching
Overview of verb beseech
The verb beseech has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (2) bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure -- (ask for or request earnestly; "The prophet bid all people to become good persons")
Overview of adj beseeching
The adj beseeching has 1 sense (no senses from tagged texts)
1. beseeching -- (begging)
Antonyms of verb beseech
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb beseech
1 sense of beseech
Sense 1
bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure
=> plead
=> appeal, invoke
=> request, bespeak, call for, quest
=> communicate, pass on, pass, pass along, put across
=> convey, transmit, communicate
=> transfer
=> move, displace
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb beseech
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb beseech
1 sense of beseech
Sense 1
bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure
=> plead
'Cause To' of verb beseech
Derived Forms of verb beseech
Domain of verb beseech
Domain Terms of verb beseech
Familiarity of verb beseech
beseech used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb beseech
1 sense of beseech
Sense 1
bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure
*> Somebody ----s somebody
*> Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb beseech
1 sense of beseech
Sense 1
bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure
> plead
=> beg, implore, pray
=> bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb beseech
Sense 1
bid, beseech, entreat, adjure, press, conjure
=> plead
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Grep of verb beseech
beseech
Antonyms of adj beseeching
1 sense of beseeching
Sense 1
beseeching (vs. imperative)
imperative (vs. beseeching)
=> adjuratory
=> clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant
=> peremptory
=> desperate
=> pressing, urgent
=> strident, shrill
Similarity of adj beseeching
1 sense of beseeching
Sense 1
beseeching (vs. imperative)
=> adjuratory
=> appealing, imploring, importunate, pleading
=> mendicant
=> petitionary
=> precatory, precative
=> suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory
Pertainyms of adj beseeching
Attributes of adj beseeching
Domain of adj beseeching
Domain Terms of adj beseeching
Familiarity of adj beseeching
beseeching used as an adjective is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Grep of adj beseeching
beseeching
Grep of adv beseeching
beseechingly
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