imploring
Pleading with urgency
Imploring describes desperate, urgent pleading—the kind that comes with emotional weight.
An imploring look or imploring tone begs for help, mercy, or understanding.
The word suggests vulnerability and earnestness: She gave him one last imploring glance before he left.
To implore is to plead with someone this way.
Urgently pleading for something
- entreatingUrgently asking for favor
- pleadingUrgent heartfelt request
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- entreatyEarnest, urgent request
plea · appeal · petition · request · solicitation · importunity · adjuration · invocation
Driven by urgent need
- urgentNeeding immediate attention
- franticWildly anxious or desperate
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
anguished · distressed · fervent · intense · anxious · fearful · helpless · panicked
Genuinely felt, not feigned
- heartfeltDeeply and sincerely meant
- genuineTruly what it claims
- passionateIntensely emotional or enthusiastic
- zealousPassionately eager and active
serious · insistent · emphatic · earnest · ardent · vehement · fervent · wholehearted
Prone to weeping
- kneelingLowering onto bent legs
- bowed headLowered face, neck bent
- gazeFixed, intent look
- gestureCommunicative body movement
trembling voice · prostrate · supplicating · mournful · piteous · woeful · sorrowful · anguished
beseeching
Urgently pleading for something
- entreatingUrgently asking for favor
- pleadingUrgent heartfelt request
- supplicationHumble plea for help
entreaty · plea · appeal · petition · request · solicitation · importunity · adjuration · invocation · prayer
desperate
Driven by urgent need
hopeless · anguished · distressed · fervent · intense · anxious · fearful · helpless · panicked · distraught
sincere
Genuinely felt, not feigned
- heartfeltDeeply and sincerely meant
- genuineTruly what it claims
- passionateIntensely emotional or enthusiastic
zealous · serious · insistent · emphatic · earnest · ardent · vehement · fervent · wholehearted · solemn
tearful
Prone to weeping
- kneelingLowering onto bent legs
- bowed headLowered face, neck bent
- gazeFixed, intent look
trembling voice · gesture · prostrate · supplicating · mournful · piteous · woeful · sorrowful · anguished · plaintive
petitioner
One who formally requests
- pleaderOne who argues formally
- beseecherOne who implores earnestly
- intercessorOne who advocates for another
appellant · requester · advocate · mediator · devotee · penitent · beggar · applicant · claimant · suitor
- persuadingpersuading, convincing, urging, coaxing, influencing
- askingquestion, inquiry, request, query, demand
- pleasplea, pleas, please, prayers, entreaty
- promptsprompt, prompts, prompting, cue, hint
- seeking helpcry for help, help wanted, asking, requesting, SOS
- prayersOur Father, morning prayers, Lord's Prayer, daily prayers, evening prayers
imploringdemanding
Requiring great effort
commanding · ordering · dictating · insisting · directing
imploringindifferent
Lacking interest or concern
dismissive · apathetic · detached · dispassionate · cold