urgent

ur·gent  (ûrjnt)

adj.

1. Compelling immediate action or attention; pressing.

2. Insistent or importunate: the urgent words "Hurry! Hurry!"

3. Conveying a sense of pressing importance: an urgent message.

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[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin urgns, urgent-, present participle of urgre, to urge.]

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urgent·ly adv.

Synonyms: urgent, exigent, pressing, imperative
These adjectives mean compelling immediate attention. Urgent often implies that a matter takes precedence over others: "My business is too urgent to waste time on apologies" John Buchan.
Exigent and pressing suggest an urgency that requires prompt action: "When once disease was introduced into the rural districts, its effects appeared more horrible, more exigent, and more difficult to cure, than in towns" Mary Shelley. "The danger now became too pressing to admit of longer delay" James Fenimore Cooper.
Imperative implies a need or demand whose fulfillment cannot be evaded or deferred: The necessity for preventing war has become imperative.

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urgent

Adjective

1. requiring speedy action or attention: an urgent inquiry

2. earnest and forceful: she heard loud urgent voices in the corridor [Latin urgere to urge]

urgency n
urgently adv

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

urgent - compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair" pressing imperative - requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"

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urgent

adjective 1. crucial, desperate, pressing, great, important, crying, critical, immediate, acute, grave, instant, compelling, imperative, top-priority, now or never, exigent, not to be delayed << OPPOSITE unimportant

adjective 2. insistent, earnest, determined, intense, persistent, persuasive, resolute, clamorous, importunate << OPPOSITE casual

Translations

urgent [ˈəːdʒənt] adj (= earnest, persistent) [plea] → insistente: [tone] → urgente

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urgent [ˈəːdʒənt] adj → urgent(e); [plea, tone] → pressant(e)

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urgent [ˈəːdʒənt] adj → dringend; [voice] → eindringend

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urgent [ˈəːdʒənt] adj → urgente (= earnest, persistent) [plea] → pressante: [tone] → insistente, incalzante