exigent

[ek-si-juhnt]

adjective

1. requiring immediate action or aid; urgent; pressing.

2. requiring a great deal, or more than is reasonable.

exigent

/ ˈɛksɪdʒənt /

adjective

1. urgent; pressing

2. exacting; demanding

Other Word Forms

• exigently adverb
• nonexigent adjective
• nonexigently adverb
• unexigent adjective
• unexigently adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of exigent¹

1400–50; late Middle English < Latin exigent- (stem of exigēns ) (present participle of exigere to drive out, demand), equivalent to ex- ex- ¹ + -ig- (combining form of agere to drive) + -ent- -ent

Word History and Origins

Origin of exigent¹

C15: from Latin exigere to drive out, weigh out, from agere to drive, compel

Example Sentences

“Some people don’t want to have to get a long-term place,” she says, and signing a lease doesn’t allow any wiggle room for exigent circumstances.

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“Even a lay person has the common sense to see exigent circumstances exist to enter these homes,” he said.

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It says school officials “should not consent to access by an immigration enforcement officer unless he/she declares exigent circumstances or has a federal judicial warrant.”

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Still, Bass is not the first California political leader to lead in absentia during a moment of exigent crisis.

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For example, the City Council could still impose a hiring freeze at the commission, or even intervene in its spending plans, if it found there were “exigent circumstances.”

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