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urgent

Syllables: ur·gentUK/ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt//ˈɝ.d͡ʒənt/

urgent adjective: requiring immediate attention.

Adjective

urgent (comparative more urgent, superlative most urgent)

  1. Requiring immediate attention.
    • An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
  2. Of people: insistent, solicitous.
    • 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
    • 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...

urgent meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

urgent in Tamil

அவசரமான

urgent in Marathi

तातडीची, तातडीचे

urgent in Urdu

urgent, emergency
ہنگامی haṅgāmī

urgent in Bengali

urgent, quick
জোর jōr
More languagesFewer languages
urgent in Telugu
అత్యవసరం atyavasaraṁ
urgent in Malayalam
അടിയന്തരം aṭiyantaraṁ, അടിയന്തര aṭiyantara
urgent in Kannada
ಅಸವಸದ, ಅವಸರದ, ತರಾತುರಿಯ, ತುರ್ತು
urgent in Gujarati
તાકીદની, તાકીદની વાત
urgent in Nepali
जरूरी jarūrī
urgent in Arabic
مُسْتَعْجِل mustaʕjil
urgent in Indonesian
mendesak
urgent in Thai
ด่วน dùuan

Examples of urgent in a sentence

  • Please forgive me if my phone goes off - I'm expecting an urgent call from my boss.
  • It is amazing that he has never buckled after so many years of doing such urgent work.
  • This item is urgent, so please start on it right away.

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Synonyms of urgent

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Antonyms

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Forms of urgent

comparativemore urgent
superlativemost urgent

Origin of urgent

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.

Words formed from urgent

Words that rhyme with urgent

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Questions about urgent

What does urgent mean?
Urgent means requiring immediate attention.
What is urgent in Tamil?
Urgent in Tamil is அவசரமான. See Urgent meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is urgent?
Urgent is an adjective.
How do you pronounce urgent?
Urgent is pronounced /ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/ (UK).

Words near urgent in the dictionary

  1. urgedst
  2. urgence
  3. Urgench
  4. urgencies
  5. urgency
  6. urgent
  7. urgent care
  8. urgentless
  9. urgently
  10. urgentness
  11. urger

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: urgent (page history and authors); urgent (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); urgent (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ہنگامی (Urdu) (page history and authors); জোর (Bengali) (page history and authors); അടിയന്തര (Malayalam) (page history and authors); urgent (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); urgent (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); जरूरी (Nepali) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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