urgent en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/ (Australia, UK)
- /ˈɝ.d͡ʒənt/ (Canada, US)
- (US) audio
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”). Equivalent to urge + -ent. Related to German würgen (“to strangle”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string, tighten, constrict”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”), Polish otwierać (“to open”)) and English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.
Meanings
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Requiring immediate attention.
An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
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Of people: insistent, solicitous.
My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay […].
c. 1794, Jane Austen, “[Lady Susan.]”, in J[ames] E[dward] Austen[-]Leigh, A Memoir of Jane Austen: […] to which is Added Lady Susan and Fragments of Two Other Unfinished Tales by Miss Austen, 2nd edition, London: Richard Bentley and Son, […], published 1871, →OCLC:The Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Exodus XII::[…] and she was wildly urgent to be gone.
1811, [Jane Austen], chapter 31, in Sense and Sensibility […], volume III, London: […] C[harles] Roworth, […], and published by T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most urgent | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more urgent | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |
Antonyms
unurgent · evergreen · nonurgent
Deriveds
urgentless · urgency · urgentness · nonurgent · urgent care · unurgent · ultraurgent · superurgent · urgently
Hyponyms
Relateds
Synonyms
pressing · acute · crying · instant · bad · severe · sore · imperious · burning · exigent · pressing · dire · instant · clamant · clamant · pressive · urgent · needly · rash
Translations (70)
cs urgentní (requiring immediate attention) · eo urĝa (requiring immediate attention) · ru спе́шный (requiring immediate attention) · yi אײַליק (requiring immediate attention) · fi kiireellinen (requiring immediate attention) · mi kōhukihuki (requiring immediate attention) · ja 急を要する (requiring immediate attention) · la instans (requiring immediate attention) · cs naléhavý (requiring immediate attention) · kmr lezgîn (requiring immediate attention) · ca urgent (requiring immediate attention) · pl pilny (requiring immediate attention) · ga práinneach (requiring immediate attention) · sk naliehavý (requiring immediate attention) · mk а́кутен (requiring immediate attention) · es apremiante (requiring immediate attention) · izh hätähiin (requiring immediate attention) · da påtrængende (requiring immediate attention) · pdt drinjent (requiring immediate attention) · es acuciante (requiring immediate attention) · th ด่วน (requiring immediate attention) · bg неотложен (requiring immediate attention) · tr ivedi (requiring immediate attention) · te అత్యవసరం (requiring immediate attention) · he דחוף (requiring immediate attention) · hy շտապ (requiring immediate attention) · cmn 急迫 (requiring immediate attention) · mk го́рлив (requiring immediate attention) · tr acil (requiring immediate attention) · nl dringend (requiring immediate attention) · sv brådskande (requiring immediate attention) · cmn 緊急 /紧急 (requiring immediate attention) · ar مُسْتَعْجِل (requiring immediate attention) · be тэрміно́вы (requiring immediate attention) · az təcili (requiring immediate attention) · el επείγων (requiring immediate attention) · ko 긴급한 (requiring immediate attention) · gd faochnach (requiring immediate attention) · cmn 緊迫 /紧迫 (requiring immediate attention) · mk и́тен (requiring immediate attention) · da uopsættelig (requiring immediate attention) · hu sürgős (requiring immediate attention) · mi nonoi (requiring immediate attention) · mk сро́чен (requiring immediate attention) · mk прек (requiring immediate attention) · fr urgent (requiring immediate attention) · de eilig (requiring immediate attention) · es urgente (requiring immediate attention) · es apremiar (requiring immediate attention) · it urgente (requiring immediate attention) · ru неотло́жный (requiring immediate attention) · io urjanta (requiring immediate attention) · be пі́льны (requiring immediate attention) · bg спе́шен (requiring immediate attention) · de dringlich (requiring immediate attention) · da presserende (requiring immediate attention) · bg сро́чен (requiring immediate attention) · sh hitan (requiring immediate attention) · gl urxente (requiring immediate attention) · id mendesak (requiring immediate attention) · ja 緊急の (requiring immediate attention) · uk спі́шний (requiring immediate attention) · uk нега́йний (requiring immediate attention) · ru э́кстренный (requiring immediate attention) · ia urgente (requiring immediate attention) · de dringend (requiring immediate attention) · pt urgente (requiring immediate attention) · uk терміно́вий (requiring immediate attention) · ru сро́чный (requiring immediate attention) · uk пи́льний (requiring immediate attention)