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ur·gent    Audio Help   [ur-juhnt] Pronunciation Key
–adjective
1.compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.
2.insistent or earnest in solicitation; importunate, as a person: an urgent pleader.
3.expressed with insistence, as requests or appeals: an urgent tone of voice.

[Origin: 1490–1500; < L urgent- (s. of urgéns), prp. of urgére to urge; see -ent]

ur·gent·ly, adverb
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ur·gent    Audio Help   (ûr'jənt)  Pronunciation Key 
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 urgēns, urgent-, present participle of urgēre, to urge.]

ur'gent·ly adv.
Synonyms: 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 
1456, from M.Fr. urgent "pressing, impelling" (14c.), from L. urgentem (nom. urgens), prp. of urgere "to press hard, urge" (see urge). Urgency is from 1540.

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urgent

adjective
compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words 'Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair" [syn: pressing

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary (Beta Version) - Cite This Source - Share This
urgent [ˈəːdʒənt] adjective
needing immediate attention
Example: There is an urgent message for the doctor.
Arabic: مُلِح، ماسٌ
Chinese (Simplified): 紧急的
Chinese (Traditional): 緊急的
Czech: naléhavý
Danish: presserende
Dutch: dringend
Estonian: kiire(loomuline)
Finnish: kiireellinen
French: urgent
German: dringend
Greek: επείγων, πιεστικός
Hungarian: sürgős
Icelandic: áríðandi
Italian: urgente
Japanese: 緊急の
Latvian: steidzīgs; neatliekams
Lithuanian: skubus
Norwegian: tvingende, presserende, nød-, haste-
Polish: pilny
Portuguese (Portugal): urgente
Russian: срочный
Slovak: naliehavý
Slovenian: nujen
Spanish: urgente
Swedish: brådskande, angelägen
Turkish: acil
See also: urgency

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