Synonyms of praying

praying

verb

present participle of pray

as in begging

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

I pray you: tell me where they went

Synonyms & Similar Words

• begging
• petitioning
• asking
• beseeching
• imploring
• entreating
• supplicating
• appealing (to)
• conjuring
• pleading (to)
• besieging
• soliciting
• requesting
• requiring
• importuning
• calling on
• impetrating
• invoking
• desiring
• suing
• insisting
• forcing
• coercing
• sponging
• claiming
• demanding
• cadging
• bludging
• compelling
• mooching
• commanding

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• suggesting
• implying
• hinting
• intimating
• gratifying
• pleasing
• satisfying
• appeasing
• obliging
• comforting
• pacifying
• consoling
• conciliating
• placating
• quieting
• contenting
• mollifying

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of praying

After their first union, Eamonn (the handsome son, of course) wakes to Aneeka praying. — Literary Hub, 14 July 2026

Le Pen, a favorite to win next year’s French presidential election, has previously called to end all immigration into France, and once compared Muslims praying in the street to Nazi occupation. — Leah Asmelash, CNN Money, 13 July 2026

Friends and family are praying for the safe return of a 63-year-old Long Beach woman who is still missing after going on a dirt bike ride in San Bernardino County last week. — Rina Nakano, CBS News, 13 July 2026

With various starters exhausted and praying for breaks in play to stretch muscles, Spence offered forward running, dribbling and seemed to have won a penalty that was eventually overturned through another use of VAR. — Michael Cox, New York Times, 12 July 2026

Then my cousin started praying and asking him to let himself be found. — Sonia Osorio, Miami Herald, 10 July 2026

Typical film financing comes down to creative ways to avoid risk (pre-sales, tax credits, distributor guarantees), followed by praying over the slice of equity left at the bottom. — Dana Harris-Bridson, IndieWire, 9 July 2026

Eventually the land tightens, and the tan spires of the Badlands rise from the earth like so many praying hands. — Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 July 2026

This is the portrait of then-General George Washington at Valley Forge, praying for guidance when the fight for America's independence seemed lost. — Lauren Green, FOXNews.com, 2 July 2026