exigent as an adjective: - 1
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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,
exigent,
pressing,
instant,
crying,
absorbing.
in want of;
destitute of
etc.
640.
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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,
inflexible,
obdurate,
austere,
hard-headed,
hard-nosed,
hard-shell [U.S.],
relentless,
Spartan,
Draconian,
stringent,
strait-laced,
searching,
unsparing,
iron-handed,
peremptory,
absolute,
positive,
arbitrary,
imperative;
coercive
etc.
744;
tyrannical,
extortionate,
grinding,
withering,
oppressive,
inquisitorial;
inclement
etc.
(ruthless)
914.1;
cruel
etc.
(malevolent)
907;
haughty,
arrogant
etc.
885;
precisian†.
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Roget 832:
discontented;
dissatisfied
etc.
v.;
unsatisfied,
ungratified;
dissident;
dissentient
etc.
489;
malcontent,
malcontented,
exigent,
exacting,
hypercritical.
repining
etc.
v.;
regretful
etc.
833;
down in the mouth
etc.
(dejected)
837.
in high dudgeon,
in a fume,
in the sulks,
in the dumps,
in bad humor;
glum,
sulky;
sour as a crab;
soured,
sore;
out of humor,
out of temper.
disappointing
etc.
v.;
unsatisfactory.
frustrated
(failure)
732.
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Moby thesaurus: Spartan, Spartanic, accurate, acute, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, burdensome, burning, charged, choiceless, clamant, clamorous, climacteric, close, compelling, compulsory, conscientious, correct, critical, crucial, crying, decisive, delicate, demanding, detailed, dour, draining, emergent, exact, exacting, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, grasping, grievous, grim, harsh, high-pressure, high-priority, imperative, imperious, importunate, insistent, instant, kairotic, loaded, loud, mandatory, menacing, meticulous, minute, narrow, necessary, necessitous, nice, obligatory, oppressive, particular, persistent, pertinacious, pivotal, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, pregnant, pressing, punctilious, punctual, refined, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, scrupulous, scrutinizing, severe, stern, strict, stringent, subtle, superincumbent, taxing, threatening, tough, unsparing, urgent, weighty, without choice ... show more.
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