BESEECHING Synonyms: 74 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

bi-ˈsē-chiŋ

Definition of beseeching

as in prayerful

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

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noun

as in pleading

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beseeching

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verb

present participle of beseech

as in begging

to make a request to (someone) in an earnest or urgent manner parishioners ardently beseeched the local bishop not to close their beloved church

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Recent Examples of beseeching

Adjective

This case has seen lot of what amounts to table-pounding by the defense, with a constant rat-a-tat-tat of motions, demands for discovery, followed by more beseeching requests. — Howard Blum, Washington Post, 26 June 2024 The same beseeching gaze gets complicated by a character like Dre—at once naïve and ruthless, in control yet entirely lost. — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2023

Noun

Prayer is a basic practice of almost all religions, and what is prayer if not a beseeching of a synchronicity from God? — Literary Hub, 8 Sep. 2025

Verb

Some Cypress Village residents are beseeching the city to keep it that way, even as the HOA applies to let the pickle balling resume. — Teri Sforza, Oc Register, 24 Apr. 2026

Recent Examples of Synonyms for beseeching

Adjective

Tigua dancers of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo performed a prayerful ceremony traditional before a hunt.

— Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 June 2026
That’s the prayerful explanation for the nonsense that spouted this week from the leaders of a football conference that hopes to grow up and be the Big Ten someday.

— Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 29 May 2026

Definition of prayerful

Noun

Since then, the case has remained in the pleading stage, where the county has challenged the sufficiency of the claims without answering them, and the child’s attorneys have revised their complaint three times.

— Bay City News, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026
The Times stands by our journalism, and the president’s legal pleadings will not change that or deter further reporting.

— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 28 July 2026

Definition of pleading

Noun

Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas, the state’s top elections official, conceded the errors that led to lawsuits by Democrats in Hartford and Enfield concerning the gathering of petition signatures in order to force a primary.

— Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 5 Aug. 2026
During the Trustee’s inquiry into their Chapter 11 petition, concern grew over how the couple used the GoFundMe proceeds, which immediately jumped to $102,290 in January 2025 after the fundraiser was launched, the filing said.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of petition

Verb

Oregon State’s players took the campaign a step further, petitioning state regulators for union representation and the right to bargain with their university.

— Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Aug. 2026
Last month, California Coastkeeper Alliance and other nonprofit groups tried to expand the clean water protections statewide by petitioning six other regional water boards.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026

Definition of petitioning

Noun

Given the dramatic manner in which the hulking piers marched down the center of the institution’s narrow corridor, flanked by the photographer’s three-inch-square Polaroids, hung as if in awed supplication, the effect verged on hyperbole, the gnomic ceding to the grandiose.

— James Quandt, Artforum, 2 June 2026
Like the appeals made by women during the antiquity to midwife goddesses, prayer and supplication were ways to affirm intentions for healthy pregnancies, calm labors, and living children.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 Mar. 2026

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