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urgent

adjective

1 urgent

Compelling immediate action:
— The urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'.
— Bridges in urgent need of repair.

synonym: pressing.

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

Roget 765: requesting etc. v.; precatory; suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory; postulant; obsecratory.    importunate, clamorous, urgent; cap in hand; ... show more

Roget 642: important; of importance etc. n.; momentous, material; to the point; not to be overlooked, not to be despised, not to be sneezed at; egregious; weighty etc. (influential) ... show more

Roget 684: hasty, hurried, brusque; scrambling, cursory, precipitate, headlong, furious, boisterous, impetuous, hotheaded; feverish, fussy; pushing.    ... show more


Moby thesaurus: active, actuating, acute, animating, ardent, begging, burning, cajoling, causal, causative, choiceless, clamant, clamorous, coaxing, compelling, compulsory, critical, crucial, crying, cursory ... show more.

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