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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.

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

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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.urgentlyurgently - with great urgency; "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash"
Translations
Spanish urgently [ˈəːdʒəntlɪ] advcon urgencia, urgentemente
French urgently [ˈəːdʒəntlɪ] advd'urgence, de toute urgence; [need] → sans délai
German urgently [ˈəːdʒəntlɪ] urgent advdringend
Italian urgently [ˈəːdʒəntlɪ] advd'urgenza, urgentemente ; con insistenza

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I urgently recommend you not to lose one unnecessary moment.
She implored her so urgently to let her spend the night with her in the golden bed, that at last the good-natured little Princess consented.
Fifty thousand camp bedsteads are urgently required for neighbourhood of La Guir.
 
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