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high-pressure
Synonyms and Antonyms of high-pressure
- a high-pressure salesman who wouldn't take "no" for an answer
- "for a limited time only" and other standbys of high-pressure advertising
argumentative, bellicose, belligerent, combative, contentious, discordant, disputatious, gladiatorial, militant, pugnacious, quarrelsome, trigger-happy, truculent, warlike
hyperaggressive, overambitious
dynamic, energetic, enterprising, gung ho, hustling, strenuous, vigorous
adventuresome, adventurous, daring, dashing, emboldened, gutsy, venturesome, venturous
audacious, bold, brash, brassy, bumptious, cheeky, cocksure, cocky, confident, determined, forward, impudent, insolent, overconfident, presumptuous, unapologetic, unsubdued, unyielding
bare-knuckle (also bare-knuckled), feisty, scrappy
dominating, domineering, imperious, lordly, magisterial, overbearing
acquiescent, amenable, compliant, deferential, docile, resigned, submissive, tractable, yielding
cowering, cringing, groveling (or grovelling), shrinking
bashful, demure, diffident, humble, lowly, meek, mild, modest, mousy (or mousey), overmodest, passive, quiet, reserved, retiring, shy, subdued, timid, unobtrusive
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