beseeching

Synonyms:

imploring, pleading

adjuratory

earnestly or solemnly entreating

importunate

expressing earnest entreaty

mendicant

practicing beggary

petitionary

of the nature of or expressing a petition

precative, precatory

expressing entreaty or supplication

suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory

humbly entreating

Antonyms:

imperative

requiring attention or action

assertive, self-asserting, self-assertive

aggressively self-assured

adjuratory

containing a solemn charge or command

clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant

demanding attention

peremptory

not allowing contradiction or refusal

desperate

showing extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire

pressing, urgent

compelling immediate action

shrill, strident

being sharply insistent on being heard

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