urgently

[ ur-juhnt-lee ]

adverb

1. in a way that requires immediate action or attention:

   These reforms are urgently necessary to protect both the public health and national security.

2. in an insistent or earnest way:

   We urgently request a thorough review and reevaluation of the government’s recovery plans for endangered species.

Other Words From

• non·ur·gent·ly adverb
• su·per·ur·gent·ly adverb
• un·ur·gent·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of urgently¹

urgent ( def ) + -ly

Example Sentences

Such economic zoning was rare in the United States before World War I, but the Buchanan decision provoked urgent interest in zoning as a way to circumvent the ruling.

From Voice of San Diego

The scale of the data collected during the pandemic had made strong enforcement more urgent, delegates said, and highlighted the need to clarify the scope of the government’s data collection and data deletion procedures during special emergencies.

From MIT Technology Review

Stacy Begin, an Oceanside Unified school board member, said she knows some parents are hoping for an urgent return to traditional learning, but the district has developed a robust distance learning plan for now.

From Voice of San Diego

The situation was becoming increasingly urgent, and hospitals in the region were at risk of being overrun.

From Quartz

This is particularly important in the setting of a pandemic, to help hospitals and health care workers treat more patients in urgent need of care.

From Science News For Students

Last week the Red Cross was sent to the region to “urgently collect 30 bodies.”

From The Daily Beast

The Royalist is urgently contacting Russian Tatler to see this extraordinary document with our own eyes.

From The Daily Beast

Both present alt cert in general—and TFA in particular—as a problem, as a project that urgently needs fixing.

From The Daily Beast

Beck had accidentally destroyed hours of urgently needed American reports.

From The Daily Beast

Darwish spoke to me urgently, saying that the origin of violence in the Middle East came from the Israeli-Palestinian divide.

From The Daily Beast

Pulpits sounded with theological arguments where admonitions were urgently needed.

From Project Gutenberg

Fumbling in his haste, he produced a pocket communicator, stabbed frantically at the dial and spoke urgently into it.

From Project Gutenberg

Imprecation is seldom absent from these incursions, being, in fact, urgently needed to do duty for closer argumentation.

From Project Gutenberg

It was repeated more urgently, to be met again by a quiet but decided negative.

From Project Gutenberg

Powerful co-operation with Cornwallis on the part of Clinton was urgently needed.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• compellingly
• eagerly
• earnestly
• frantically
• hastily
• vigorously