What does urgent mean?
Definitions for urgent
ˈɜr dʒəntur·gent
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Princeton's WordNet
pressing, urgentadjective
compelling immediate action
"too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"
Wiktionary
urgentadjective
Requiring immediate attention.
An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
Etymology: Latin urgentem ('pressing') from urgere ('to press').
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Urgentadjective
Etymology: urgent, Fr. urgens, Lat.
Things so ordained are to be kept; howbeit not necessarily, any longer than till there grow some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Richard Hooker, b. iv.
Not alone
The death of Fulvia, but more urgent touches,
Do strongly speak t’ us. William Shakespeare, Ant. and Cleopatra.This ever hath been that true cause of more wars, than upon all other occasions, though it least partakes of the urgent necessity of state. Walter Raleigh.
Let a father seldom strike, but upon very urgent necessity, and as the last remedy. John Locke, on Education.
The Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out in haste. Exod. xii. 33.
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urgent
Urgent refers to something or a situation that requires immediate attention or action due to its critical importance or severity.
Webster Dictionary
Urgentadjective
urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important
Freebase
Urgent
"Urgent" is a song by the Anglo-American rock band Foreigner, and the first single from their hit album 4 in 1981.
British National Corpus
Spoken Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'urgent' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4290
Written Corpus Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'urgent' in Written Corpus Frequency: #4303
Adjectives Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'urgent' in Adjectives Frequency: #569
Anagrams for urgent »
Gunter
gurnet
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of urgent in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of urgent in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4
Examples of urgent in a Sentence
Although virtual urgent care and in-person urgent care have not been compared head-to-head, virtual urgent care has its downsides – indirect physical exam, difficult access to testing, and unclear follow-up, while the quality of care is not perfect anywhere, a patient’s primary care doctor should be a person’s first point of contact.
But frankly, this government's absolute fundamental priority ... is to get the most urgent budget measures through and by far the most urgent budget measure is the small business budget boost.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The very fact of its finding itself in agreement with other minds perturbs it, so that it hunts for points of divergence, feeling the urgent need to make it clear that at least it reached the same conclusions by a different route.
The situation in Ukraine is now very volatile, it is urgent that they establish a new government and even more urgent that they speed up the reform process.
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- مستعجلArabic
- urgentCatalan, Valencian
- naléhavýCzech
- presserendeDanish
- dringlich, eilig, dringendGerman
- επείγωνGreek
- urĝaEsperanto
- urgente, acucianteSpanish
- kiireellinenFinnish
- urgentFrench
- práinneachIrish
- faochnachScottish Gaelic
- urxenteGalician
- sürgősHungarian
- urgenteInterlingua
- urjantaIdo
- urgenteItalian
- 緊急, 急を要するJapanese
- 긴급Korean
- lezgînKurdish
- nonoiMāori
- dringendDutch
- pilnyPolish
- urgentePortuguese
- экстренный, срочный, неотложныйRussian
- brådskandeSwedish
- అత్యవసరంTelugu
- acil, ivediTurkish
- 急Chinese
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