hard-pressed

Speech parts

1. hard-pressed - Adjective

2. hard-pressed - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

hard put vulnerable pressed deprived struggling impoverished deficient distressed stressed harassed on the go dire straits harried careworn beleaguered
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Examples

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion. Esperanza Spalding

Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City. Luis A. Ferré

I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. Karin Slaughter

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies. Paul Westerberg

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive. Dylan Moran

We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us. Haile Selassie

Close letter words and terms

hard-on hard-on in loose clothing hard-paste porcelain hard-run hard-scrabble hard-sectored