Urgent

Adjective

 * 1) Requiring immediate attention.
 * An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.

Synonyms

 * pressing

Derived terms

 * urgently
 * urgency

Related terms

 * urge

Adverbs for Urgent
vitally; terribly; essentially; immediately; pressingly; personally; sorely; desperately; dreadfully; ominously; significantly; extremely; supremely; singularly; particularly; peculiarly; presumably; conspicuously; momentously; gravely; seriously.

Thesaurus
active, actuating, acute, animating, ardent, begging, burning, cajoling, causal, causative, choiceless, clamant, clamorous, coaxing, compelling, compulsory, critical, crucial, crying, cursory, demanding, directive, draining, driving, dunning, earnest, emergency, emphatic, energetic, enthusiastic, exacting, exciting, exigent, exorbitant, expeditious, extortionate, fervent, festinate, feverish, fiery, firm, flying, forceful, furious, glowing, grasping, hasty, high-pressure, high-priority, hurried, immediate, impassioned, impelling, imperative, imperious, important, importunate, impulsive, inducive, insistent, instant, last-minute, life-and-death, life-or-death, loud, mandatory, motivating, motivational, motive, moving, nagging, necessary, necessitous, obligatory, on the spot, passing, passionate, persistent, pertinacious, pestering, pivotal, plaguing, pressing, prompt, provoking, quick, rush, serious, slap-bang, slapdash, snap, solicitous, speedy, stimulating, stirring, superficial, swift, taxing, teasing, tenacious, vehement, vital, warm, wheedling, without choice

Etymology
Latin urgente ('pressing') from urgere ('to press').

Pronunciation
/ˈɜːdʒənt/, /"3:dZ@nt/

Translations

 * Arabic: (mustaʕjil)
 * Chinese: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: urĝa
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Ido: urjanta
 * Interlingua: urgente


 * Irish: práinneach
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 急を要する, 緊急の
 * Korean: 긴급한 (gingeuphan)
 * Kurdish: lezgîn
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish: brådskande
 * Telugu: అత్యవసరం
 * Turkish: ivedi,

Anagrams

 * Gunter

Adjective

 * 1) urgent

Related terms

 * urgence
 * urger