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Definition of Hard-pressed
1. Adjective. Facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty. "Found themselves in a bad way financially"
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
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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