urgent
Adjective Satellite
- compelling immediate action
- "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"
- "bridges in urgent need of repair"
Adj
- Requiring immediate attention.
- Of people: insistent, solicitous.
Adjective
- Requiring immediate action or attention; pressing.
Examples
- An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
- His next Scrabble move felt URGENT, as his opponent was closing in.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
pressing, acute, bad, clamant, crying, dire, exigent, imperious, instant, needly, pressive, rash, severe, urgent
Scrabble Score: 7
urgent: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordurgent: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
urgent: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary