hard-pressed
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.10 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Barely able; having difficulty doing something.
adj
Experiencing financial difficulty or difficulty in surviving.
Example Sentences
- "Although they are still available, I think we would be hard-pressed to find one on short notice."
- "From the 'fifties onwards the development of the South Wales & Monmouthshire coalfield went on at terrific speed, and railway construction was hard pressed to keep pace with it."
- "These units will replace the 2,800 h.p. motor coaches on the fast and heavy Zurich-Berne-Lausanne-Geneva push-and-pull expresses, which in their turn have been relieving the hard-pressed 2,520 h.p. Bo-Bo locomotives of the Re 4/4 type."
- "The earthquake left the residents hard-pressed."
- "Speaking to Parliament on March 23, Sunak announced a temporary cut in fuel duty of 5p per litre to hard-pressed motorists who have faced spiralling prices for diesel and petrol in recent weeks."
Inflected Forms
more hard-pressed (comparative)
most hard-pressed (superlative)
hard pressed (alternative)
hardpressed (alternative)