urgent
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- compelling immediate action
- "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"
- "bridges in urgent need of repair"
Adj
- Requiring immediate attention.
- Of people: insistent, solicitous.
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
acute, bad, clamant, crying, dire, exigent, imperious, instant, needly, pressing, pressive, rash, severe, urgent
Scrabble Score: 7
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