entreat
Plead with urgency
To entreat is to ask earnestly or plead with someone, often from a position of lesser power: She entreated him to reconsider.
The word carries a sense of emotional appeal—not quite begging, but more urgent than a simple request.
Entreat appears more often in formal or literary contexts than in everyday speech.
Urge with desperation
- beseechPlead urgently with someone
- begAsk with desperation
- supplicateBeg earnestly and humbly
- petitionFormal written appeal
adjure · importune · pray · appeal · solicit · invoke · intercede · exhort
Cause to believe
- persuadeCause to believe
- coaxPersuade by gentle urging
- influencePower to affect others
- swayRock back and forth
urge · appeal · advocate · lobby · enlist · charm · beguile · press
Intensely and sincerely felt
- heartfeltDeeply and sincerely meant
- sincereGenuinely felt, not feigned
- passionateIntensely emotional or enthusiastic
- imploringUrgently requesting with emotion
insistent · beseeching · urgent · desperate · intense · devout · zealous · genuine
Driven by urgent need
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
- urgentNeeding immediate attention
imperative · anxious · frantic · immediate · earnest · insistent · impassioned · anguished
Address to deity
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- intercessionActing on another's behalf
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- orisonFormal devotional petition
litany · benediction · reverence · mercy · grace · blessing · piety · veneration
implore
Urge with desperation
- beseechPlead urgently with someone
- begAsk with desperation
- supplicateBeg earnestly and humbly
petition · adjure · importune · pray · appeal · solicit · invoke · intercede · exhort · grovel
convince
Cause to believe
sway · urge · appeal · advocate · lobby · enlist · charm · beguile · press · prevail
fervent
Intensely and sincerely felt
- heartfeltDeeply and sincerely meant
- sincereGenuinely felt, not feigned
- passionateIntensely emotional or enthusiastic
imploring · insistent · beseeching · urgent · desperate · intense · devout · zealous · genuine · vehement
desperate
Driven by urgent need
- pressingRequiring immediate attention
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- criticalExpressing disapproval or importance
urgent · imperative · anxious · frantic · immediate · earnest · insistent · impassioned · anguished · distressed
prayer
Address to deity
- invocationCalling upon higher authority
- intercessionActing on another's behalf
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
orison · litany · benediction · reverence · mercy · grace · blessing · piety · veneration · prostration
- persuasionpersuade, persuasion, persuasive, convince, convincing
- persuasion tacticscharm, butter up, flattery, flatter, coax
- investigatinginvestigate, examine, inspect, probe, search
- wantingwant, desire, crave, yearn, long
- encourageencourage, urge, cheer on, exhort, motivate
- archaic wordsthee, thou, thy, thine, tis