Usually means: Actively seeking to achieve something.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. pursuing: Merriam-Webster
  2. pursuing: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pursuing: Collins English Dictionary
  4. pursuing: Vocabulary.com
  5. Pursuing, pursuing: Wordnik
  6. pursuing: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. pursuing: Wiktionary
  8. Pursuing, pursuing: Dictionary.com
  9. pursuing: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Pursuing: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. pursuing: Rhymezone
  12. Pursuing: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. pursuing: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. pursuing: FreeDictionary.org
  15. pursuing: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. Pursuing: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pursuing: Legal dictionary

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▸ noun:  pursuit

Similar:
following, pursual, pursuance, fresh pursuit, prospecting, proceeding, procural, prospection, probing, approaching, more...

Opposite:
avoiding, evading, fleeing, ignoring, retreating

Types:
following, chasing, tracking, hounding, stalking, more...

Phrases:
pursuing their own goals, pursuing dreams, pursuing a profession, relentlessly pursuing, girl pursuing realm, more...

Adjectives:
worth, worthwhile, ever, ideal, purpose, comfortable, objective, busy, delightful, peace, natured

Colors:
    teal,     emerald,     gold,     silver,     crimson, more...



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Similar:
following, pursual, pursuance, fresh pursuit, prospecting, proceeding, procural, prospection, probing, approaching, more...

Opposite:
avoiding, evading, fleeing, ignoring, retreating

Types:
following, chasing, tracking, hounding, stalking, more...

Phrases:
pursuing their own goals, pursuing dreams, pursuing a profession, relentlessly pursuing, girl pursuing realm, more...

Adjectives:
worth, worthwhile, ever, ideal, purpose, comfortable, objective, busy, delightful, peace, natured

Colors:
    teal,     emerald,     gold,     silver,     crimson, more...



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