urgentadjective
uk/ˈɜː.dʒənt/us/ˈɝː.dʒənt/urgent adjective (IMPORTANT)
B1 needing attention very soon, especially before anything else, because important:
He's got to sign that paper - will you tell him it's urgent?
The most urgent thing in a fire is to make sure everyone is out of the building.
Many people are in urgent need of food and water.
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- Let's leave that matter aside for now and talk about the more urgent problem facing us.
- Excuse me, but I have some urgent business to attend to.
- This is a problem that requires urgent attention.
- Jack is in need of an urgent operation.
- I'm afraid this can't wait - it really is urgent.
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Very important or urgent
- all-important
- arch
- at all cost(s) idiom
- be a matter of life and/or death idiom
- burning
- chief
- considerable
- critical
- major league
- make the world go around/round idiom
- materially
- minor league
- mission-critical
- prized
- radical
- sacred
- salient
- serious
- seriously
- substantial
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urgent adjective (REPEATED)
formal (especially of a person's actions) repeated and determined in trying to get or do something:
His urgent pleas of innocence made no difference to the judge's decision.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Strong-willed
- a firm hand idiom
- adamant
- adamantine
- aggressive
- an iron hand/fist in a velvet glove idiom
- fury
- go-getter
- going
- gutsy
- hard-boiled
- importunate
- pertinacious
- pigheaded
- purposeful
- pushy
- ravening
- recalcitrant
- will not take no for an answer idiom
- willful
- with guns blazing idiom
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urgency
noun [ U ] uk/ˈɜː.dʒən.si/us/ˈɝː.dʒən.si/
It now is a matter of urgency that aid reaches the famine area.
urgently
adverb uk/ˈɜː.dʒənt.li/us/ˈɝː.dʒənt.li/
B1
Help is urgently needed.