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urgent
[ ur-juhnt ]
adjective
an urgent matter.
Synonyms: desperate, imperative
- insistent or earnest in solicitation; importunate, as a person:
an urgent pleader.
- expressed with insistence, as requests or appeals:
an urgent tone of voice.
urgent
/ ˈɜːdʒənsɪ; ˈɜːdʒənt /
adjective
- requiring or compelling speedy action or attention
the matter is urgent
an urgent message
- earnest and persistent
Derived Forms
- urgency, noun
- ˈurgently, adverb
Other Words From
- ur·gent·ly adverb
- non·ur·gent adjective
- su·per·ur·gent adjective
- un·ur·gent adjective
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of urgent1
Example Sentences
The need for increased community policing is more urgent than ever before.
“The recent earthquakes make this project urgent,” Franceschini told reporters.
Then, depending on how urgent I think it is to get it, sometimes I have to go back home and drop it off.
Is there anyone who thinks the urgent problem we need to solve in Washington, D.C. is how to allow more spending on campaigns?
We need to strike a balance between creating false alarms and letting any urgent medical matters fall through the cracks.
They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
Nor is there anyone of that order who talks of going back to those kingdoms without the most urgent reason making it necessary.
I humbly petition your Majesty to be pleased to order that he be despatched here, so that this so urgent need may be supplied.
Never again would she ignore an urgent telegram, though she did not believe that this telegram had any real importance.
In the first place, there is an immediate and urgent demand for at least Half a Million comfortable rain-proof dwellings.
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