Dictionary

urgently en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English urgent Middle English -ly English -ly English urgently From urgent + -ly.

Meanings

1. With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
   • Funds are urgently required if this work is to be completed as planned.
   • We all urgently need to apply solutions to the problem of pollution.
   • And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts... 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
2. Continuously. With insistence.
   • He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.
   • For example, the pain-sufferer will be urgently wishing this section of his life were over and done with in a way quite lacking in the pain-imitator. 1980, Keith Campbell, Body and Mind, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 73:

Forms

Antonyms

half-heartedly · apathetically

Synonyms

persistently · pressingly (great haste) · emergently (great haste) · persuasively · imperatively (great haste)

Translations (33)

fr d'urgence (with a sense of urgency) · pl pilnie (with a sense of urgency) · cmn 緊急地 /紧急地 (with a sense of urgency) · fr urgemment (with a sense of urgency) · ko 긴급하게 (with a sense of urgency) · es de ahora para ahorita (with a sense of urgency) · ru э́кстренно (with a sense of urgency) · hu sürgősen (with a sense of urgency) · cs naléhavě (with a sense of urgency) · bg сро́чно (with a sense of urgency) · hy շտապ (with a sense of urgency) · fi kiireesti (with a sense of urgency) · es urgentemente (with a sense of urgency) · fi kiireellisesti (with a sense of urgency) · sk súrne (with a sense of urgency) · ja 緊急に (with a sense of urgency) · it urgentemente (with a sense of urgency) · ru сро́чно (with a sense of urgency) · be пі́льна (with a sense of urgency) · uk пи́льно (with a sense of urgency) · bg спе́шно (with a sense of urgency) · wa strapanmint (with a sense of urgency) · be тэрміно́ва (with a sense of urgency) · eo urĝe (with a sense of urgency) · pt urgentemente (with a sense of urgency) · uk терміно́во (with a sense of urgency) · el επειγόντως (with a sense of urgency) · sk naliehavo (with a sense of urgency) · es por luego (with a sense of urgency) · ca urgentment (with a sense of urgency) · ru спе́шно (with a sense of urgency) · uk спі́шно (with a sense of urgency) · de dringend (with a sense of urgency)