Definition of Hard-pressed

1. Adjective. Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty. "Found themselves in a bad way financially"

Exact synonyms: Distressed, Hard Put, In A Bad Way
Similar to: Troubled

Definition of Hard-pressed

1. Adjective. (idiomatic usually with to-infinitive) Barely able. ¹

2. Adjective. (idiomatic) Experiencing financial difficulty or difficulty in surviving. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hard-pressed

hard-favoured
hard-fisted
hard-fought
hard-handed
hard-headed
hard-hearted
hard-hitting
hard-line
hard-liner
hard-liners
hard-mouthed
hard-nosed
hard-of-hearing
hard-ons
hard-pressed (current term)
hard-sell
hard-shell
hard-shell clam
hard-shell crab
hard-skinned puffball
hard-to-please(a)
hard-wire
hard-wired
hard-won
hard-working
hard and fast
hard as nails
hard beech
hard by

Literary usage of Hard-pressed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1896)
"Without an army, without money, without a currency, hard pressed by the enemy on every hand and sitting in the ashes of its former home, it did indeed seem ..."

2. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1898)
"IN WHICH IT APPEARS THAT A MAN MAY POSSESS A DIAMOND AND YET BE VERY HARD PRESSED FOR A DINNER. N that fatal Saturday evening, in a hackney-coach, ..."

3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1870)
"COUSIN GEORGE IS hard-pressed. THE very sensible, and, as one would have thought, very manifest idea of buying up Cousin George originated with Mr. Boltby. ..."

4. The Growth of British Policy: An Historical Essay by John Robert Seeley (1895)
"Thus about the time when the first Dutch war began, France was indeed hard pressed and fortune seemed to incline in favour of Spain. ..."

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