beseeching

Definitions of beseeching

1. adjective

   begging
   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