Urgent

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Urgent \Ur"gent\, a. [L. urgens, p. pr. of urgere: cf. F.
     urgent. See {Urge}.]
     Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity;
     calling for immediate attention; instantly important. "The
     urgent hour." --Shak.
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           Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. --Hooker.
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           The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they
           might send them out of the land in haste. --Ex. xii.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  urgent
       adj : compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of
             longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'";
             "bridges in urgent need of repair" [syn: {pressing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "urgent":
     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