pushing

[ poosh-ing ]

adjective

1. that pushes.
2. enterprising; energetic.

   Synonyms: ambitious

3. tactlessly or officiously aggressive; forward; intrusive.

   Synonyms: offensive

pushing

/ ˈpʊʃɪŋ /

adjective

1. enterprising, resourceful, or aggressively ambitious
2. impertinently self-assertive

adverb

1. almost or nearly (a certain age, speed, etc)

   pushing fifty

Derived Forms

• ˈpushingness, noun
• ˈpushingly, adverb

Other Words From

• pushing·ly adverb
• pushing·ness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of pushing¹

First recorded in 1520–30; push + -ing ²

Example Sentences

Artists including Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have pulled their music off of Spotify in protest against Rogan’s pushing of misinformation about the covid-19 vaccines.

From Quartz

Building a working reactor—even a very small one—requires precise and painstaking efforts of both engineering and paper pushing.

From Time

The message these stories impart is that the outdoors is a place of conquest, of list-making and box-checking and limit-pushing—which, at its worst, can lead to risky or irresponsible behavior.

From Outside Online

There are parks filled with men pushing strollers and coffee shops where fathers meet their friends, babes in arms.

From The Daily Beast

Youssef said the jailings are not only driving the community underground but pushing many to move abroad.

From The Daily Beast

Foxx says that he thinks this generation has the capacity to keep pushing through racial barriers.

From The Daily Beast

And U.S. lawmakers are pushing to involve China in any retaliation against the Sony hack.

From The Daily Beast

And compare, as noted up top, to Secretary Clinton, who spent years quietly pushing a modernized Cuba policy.

From The Daily Beast

My thought was to keep pushing in troops from "W" Beach until the enemy had fallen back to save themselves from being cut off.

From Project Gutenberg

Edward, while busily arranging 'to cross seas' to Flanders, was also pushing forward preparations for a 'Scottish War.'

From Project Gutenberg

He lost his head as the lower gates swung open, and broke the rule of the river by pushing out in front of a launch.

From Project Gutenberg

A louder and different tone is elicited upon pushing the key further down.

From Project Gutenberg

I am pushing the smiths as hard as possible, and you must do the same at your works, that the greatest dispatch may be made.

From Project Gutenberg