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exigent

adjective

1 exigent

Demanding attention:
— Regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous.

synonyms: clamant, crying, insistent, instant.

Roget 630: required etc. v.; requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite; called for; in demand, in request.    urgent, ... show more

2 exigent

Requiring precise accuracy:
— Became more exigent over his pronunciation.

synonym: exacting.

Roget 739: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, ... show more

Roget 832: discontented; dissatisfied etc. v.; unsatisfied, ungratified; dissident; dissentient etc. 489; malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Spartan, Spartanic, accurate, acute, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, burdensome, burning, charged, choiceless, clamant, clamorous, climacteric, close, compelling, compulsory, conscientious, correct ... show more.

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