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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beseeching

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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

His prayerful recognition of God’s supremacy and government of the universe refreshed his heart and lifted his thought above the human fears and limitations that plague an illusory, material sense of existence.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2026
Tigua dancers of the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo performed a prayerful ceremony traditional before a hunt.

— Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 28 June 2026

Definition of prayerful

Noun

Patriot stockpiles are low, largely because of the Iran war, and Ukraine has received only small numbers of them this year despite President Volodymyr Zelensky’s pleading.

— Susie Blann, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2026
Patriot stockpiles are low, largely because of the Iran war, and Ukraine has received only small numbers of them this year despite President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s pleading.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Sep. 2026

Definition of pleading

Verb

Video on social media showed distressed shopkeepers begging young men to stop stealing their inventory—and those young men pushing them aside to grab shoes and food from their shelves.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 20 Oct. 2026
So your group chat has been begging you to host the next big viewing night, and your bank account is giving you side-eye.

— Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of begging

Noun

The question is going to voters because opponents gathered petition signatures forcing a referendum.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
Attorneys for Pro Silver Star sent the band a cease-and-desist letter on Thursday, the filing states, and a copy of the petition for the restraining order and injunction on Friday.

— Chuck Schilken, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of petition

Verb

Those hoping to challenge the highest court’s composition or jurisdiction may go about that in a few ways, such as by petitioning for term limits.

— Connor Greene, Time, 21 Oct. 2026
Some vendors have been petitioning the FCC, noting that the ongoing memory shortage has forced them to modify existing routers with replacement components.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of petitioning

Noun

But such is the scale of Brazil’s polarization that many Brazilians are insensible to Lula’s entreaties and want the left defeated.

— Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 21 Oct. 2026
Abroad, their entreaties had remained unsuccessful, their diplomats had remained unrecognized, and their national existence had remained unrealized.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2026

Definition of entreaty

Noun

There were many other signs that Xi would not readily yield to Trump’s supplications.

— Orville Schell, Foreign Affairs, 16 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of supplication

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