urgent

(ûr'jənt)
adj.

1. Compelling immediate action or attention; pressing.
2. Insistent or importunate: the urgent words "Hurry! Hurry!"
3. Conveying a sense of pressing importance: an urgent message.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin urgēns, urgent-, present participle of urgēre, to urge.]

urgently ur'gent·ly adv.

SYNONYMS   urgent, exigent, pressing, imperative. These adjectives mean compelling immediate attention. Urgent often implies that a matter takes precedence over others: "My business is too urgent to waste time on apologies" (John Buchan). Exigent and pressing suggest an urgency that requires prompt action: "When once disease was introduced into the rural districts, its effects appeared more horrible, more exigent, and more difficult to cure, than in towns" (Mary Shelley). "The danger now became too pressing to admit of longer delay" (James Fenimore Cooper). Imperative implies a need or demand whose fulfillment cannot be evaded or deferred: The necessity for preventing war has become imperative.

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adjective

1. Compelling immediate attention: burning, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, instant, pressing. See big/small/amount.
2. Firm or obstinate, as in making a demand or maintaining a stand: importunate, importune, insistent, persistent. See continue/stop/pause.

adj

Definition: needing immediate attention
Antonyms: moderate, unimportant, unnecessary

IN BRIEF: Needing quick action. Also: Insistent.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? — Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968).

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• Genres: Rock

Biography

Michael, Don, and Steve Kehr rose from the East Coast in the mid-'80s, fronting Urgent, an album rock quintet who released two LPs of discerning quality but limited panache. Rounding out the group was bassist Klyph Black, who worked with Nikki Buzz in Vendetta, and Yul Vaz on drums. The legendary luminaries Ian Hunter and Mick Ronson produced and wrote four songs for Urgent's debut, aptly christened Cast the First Stone. Considering the loud rock pedigree of the personnel, the disc surprisingly resembled Canadian AOR (Honeymoon Suite, Loverboy), and strong first single "Running Back" briefly hoofed FM radio. Two years later, in 1987, Thinking Out Loud appeared. Featuring three songs Urgent co-wrote with Hunter and Ronson, the record sank like a stone. ~ Doug Stone, Rovi

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• Relative Time - urgent: (adj) requiring immediate attention

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - haster, vigtigt

Nederlands (Dutch)
dringend, spoedeisend, hardnekkig

Français (French)
adj. - urgent, insistant, pressant

Deutsch (German)
adj. - dringend, eilig

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - επείγων, πιεστικός, άμεσος, επίμονος

Italiano (Italian)
urgente

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - urgente, importuno

Русский (Russian)
срочный, настоятельный

Español (Spanish)
adj. - urgente, apremiante, perentorio

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - brådskande, angelägen, överhängande, viktig, enträgen, ivrig, envis

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
急迫的, 紧急的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 急迫的, 緊急的

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 절박한, 긴급한, 재촉하는

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 差し迫った, 切迫した, 緊急の, しつこく迫る
v. - 強要する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) ملح, ماس, , معجل, مستعجل‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮דחוף, מיידי, דוחק, של חירום‬

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