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beseeching

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of beseeching

asking humbly

a beseeching letter from his parents asking him to bring the grandchildren for a long overdue visit

Synonyms of beseeching

entreating, imploring, pleading, prayerful, soliciting, suppliant, supplicant, supplicating, supplicatory

Words Related to beseeching

begging, importunate, insistent, persistent

beseeching

verb , present participle of beseech

Synonyms and Antonyms of beseeching

to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner

parishioners ardently beseeched the local bishop not to close their beloved church

Synonyms of beseeching

appealing (to), begging, besieging, conjuring, entreating, impetrating, imploring, importuning, petitioning, pleading (to), praying, soliciting, supplicating

Words Related to beseeching

bludging [chiefly Australian & New Zealand], cadging, mooching, sponging

asking, desiring, invoking, requesting, suing

claiming, coercing, commanding, compelling, demanding, forcing, insisting, requiring

Phrases Synonymous with beseeching

calling on (or calling upon)

Near Antonyms of beseeching

hinting, implying, intimating, suggesting

appeasing, conciliating, gratifying, mollifying, obliging, pacifying, placating, pleasing, satisfying

comforting, consoling, contenting, quieting

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