imploring
/im'plɔ:riɳ/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Begging earnestly or desperately: Describing a manner, look, or tone that shows someone is asking for something with great urgency, sincerity, and emotional intensity, often because they are in a state of need or distress.
Usage and Examples
- Adjective:
- She gave him an imploring look, hoping he would change his mind. (Her look was full of desperate hope and pleading.)
- He spoke in an imploring voice, begging for another chance. (His tone of voice was earnest and desperate.)
- The dog's imploring eyes made it impossible to refuse him a treat. (The dog's eyes expressed a strong, silent plea.)
Advanced Usage
- "Imploring" is often used to describe non-verbal communication, such as a gaze, gesture, or expression, that conveys a deep, unspoken plea.
- Her imploring gesture, with hands clasped together, moved everyone in the room.
- It can modify abstract nouns related to communication.
- The letter was filled with imploring words.
- He could not ignore the imploring nature of her request.
Variants and Related Words
- Implore (verb): To beg someone earnestly or desperately to do something.
- She implored him to stay.
- Imploringly (adverb): In a begging or pleading manner.
- He looked at her imploringly.
Synonyms
- Pleading: Making an emotional appeal.
- Beseeching: Asking someone urgently and fervently to do something.
- Entreating: Asking someone earnestly or anxiously to do something.
Antonyms
- Demanding: Asking authoritatively and forcefully, not pleadingly.
- Commanding: Giving an order, not a request.
- Apathetic: Showing no feeling or interest, not earnest pleading.
Related Phrases and Idioms
- To no avail: Often used to describe a futile or unanswered imploring action.
- Her imploring cries for help were to no avail; no one heard her.
- Fall on deaf ears: Describes when imploring requests are ignored.
- His imploring arguments fell on deaf ears.