Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Compelling immediate action or attention; pressing.
- adj. Insistent or importunate: the urgent words "Hurry! Hurry!”
- adj. Conveying a sense of pressing importance: an urgent message.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the character of urging, pressing, or constraining. Specifically— Of things: Pressing; demanding immediate action; forcing itself upon notice; cogent; vehement: as, an urgent case or occasion. See
urgency .
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. compelling immediate action
Etymologies
- Latin urgentem ('pressing') from urgere ('to press'). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, from Latin urgēns, urgent-, present participle of urgēre, to urge. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon asked President Sarkozy for what he called "urgent" military operations to silence mortars and rocket launchers that have been used against civilians and U.N. headquarters in Abidjan.”
Voice of America: French, UN Forces Join Fight Against Incumbent Ivory Coast President
“The FAO called the meeting to discuss what it termed urgent and concrete measures to address the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa.”
Voice of America: UN Pushes to End Hunger Cycle in Horn of Africa
“DUBLIN—Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny and senior ministers detailed on Monday what they described as an "urgent" employment plan, pledging to create 100,000 posts in the next four years for an economy struggling to grow under its bailout austerity program.”
“Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny and senior ministers detailed what they described as an "urgent" employment plan, pledging to create 100,000 posts in the next four years.”
“In February 2009, two senior Perry aides summoned commission chairman Sam Bassett for what they called an urgent meeting, at which they made clear they weren't happy with the investigation, Mr. Bassett said in an interview.”
The Wall Street Journal: In Texas, a Weak Office Becomes Stronger
“Now the U.N. World Food Program is sending more food to meet what it calls the "urgent hunger needs among 3.5 million vulnerable people.”
“Negotiations went deep into the night last night, and at the unusual hour of 11: 35, the director of National Intelligence issued a statement emphasizing what he called the urgent need to reform the current law, to allow monitoring of foreign communications if they pass through the United States.”
“Only two items stick fast: the word urgent, and the name of the attorney.”
“Mr. Flaherty repeated his call for European leaders to provide clarity on the Greek debt crisis, which he described as an "urgent situation.”
“Feb. 4, 2010 The US Chemical Safety Board announced it was considering what it called urgent recommendations to change national fuel gas codes to improve safety when gas pipes are being purged, or cleared of air during maintenance or installation of new piping.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘urgent’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Spam
Spam email often comes up with linguistic oddities. Here they are: pseudo-words, dopey phrases, spammer names and the like.
greatdisconutsfor..., folkishness overr..., sola ignescent, upstart, saramara, check out bling b..., there's only one ..., psnemrif, thaws classless, curfitbatsnest, this is how she d..., demurrage and 143 more...
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EU Buzz - Lisbon Treaty
All words of the Lisbon Treaty
(Persons' names, foreign and grammatical words have been eliminated, MWEs have been split up into individual words. Capitalization has been retained if r...health, follow, condition, meeting, minister, beginning, chapter, information, language, remain, covered, respect and 2614 more...
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EU Buzz - single words (1+2+3)
1. Strictly EU terms with special European meaning used only in the EU
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2. Keywords central to the understanding of the EU (people working for the EU are usually able to give thematic...acceleration, action, additionality, administrator, agenda, agricultural, agri-environmental, agriflation, agri-food, applicant, approach, assent and 1325 more...
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Vocab.5
adequate, administer, agitate, capitulate, citrus, disrupt, hovel, illiterate, indifferent, menial, permanent, respite and 3 more...
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Pedantic distinctions
Put the two words next to each other. Pedants of the world pen your pet peeves here!
syntax, grammar, imply, infer, comprise, compose, effect, affect, insure, ensure, uninterested, disinterested and 21 more...
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Vocab5
adequate, administer, agitate, capitulate, citrus, disrupt, hovel, illiterate, indifferent, menial, permanent, respite and 3 more...
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miscellany
extrapolate, effluvium, maelstrom, ecclesiastic, potentiate, prestidigitation, verisimilitude, innocuous, octogenarian, interlocutor, proselytize, ubiquitous and 138 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Words from "Pearls Before Breakfast"
nondescript, shrewd, seed money, bureaucrat, indeterminate, fungible, cupidity, banal, grandeur, utilitarian, buffer, ecstatic and 123 more...
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Coruscatingly what?
List of adjectival terms, from aggressive to zippered, paired in printed materials with the adverb coruscatingly, identified by a simple query to Google Search (Books).
...propaedeutic...aggressive, angry, articulate, astringent, aware, beautiful, big, blinding, bright, brilliant, brutal, cerebral and 93 more...
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A Myriad of Irii
Iris varieties.
abbondanza, abiqua falls, about town, above the clouds, acadian miss, acapulco gold, act of kindness, adoregon, aegean wind, afternoon in rio, aggressively forward, agua fresca and 721 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o..., abject,utterly ho... and 2228 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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SAT
abandon,extreme e..., dispensing of all..., abash,to humiliate, abate,to lessen, abbreviate,to sho..., abridge, abdicate,to forma..., aberration,depart..., abnormality, abet,to encourage, abhor,to hate, abide,to follow o... and 2229 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for urgent.
bilby "Urgent. I am Mrs Wendy Jones. I have willed all my assets including my companies and my investment to you. My doctor has just confirmed to me that i have few minutes to live. so please contact my law firm. They will guide you on what to do."
- spam. Sep 13, 2008