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Adjective hard-pressed has 1 sense
- distressed, hard-pressed, hard put, in a bad way, in trouble - facing or experiencing financial trouble or difficulty; "the troubled car industry"; "distressed companies need loans and technical advice"; "financially hard-pressed Mexican hotels are lowering their prices"; "we were hard put to meet the mortgage paymentng"; "it was apparent that the magazine was in trouble"; "found themselves in a bad way financially"
Antonym: untroubled (indirect, via troubled)
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