urgent
- compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.
- insistent or earnest in solicitation; importunate, as a person: an urgent pleader.
- expressed with insistence, as requests or appeals: an urgent tone of voice.
Origin of urgent
Related Words for urgently
crucially, vigorously, eagerly, hastily, frantically, earnestly, compellingly, essentially, necessarily, imperatively, anxious, excitedly, impetuously, beseechingly, emotionally, enthusiastically, gravely, imperiously, imploringly, importunatelyExamples from the Web for urgently
Contemporary Examples of urgently
Last week the Red Cross was sent to the region to “urgently collect 30 bodies.”
The Royalist is urgently contacting Russian Tatler to see this extraordinary document with our own eyes.
Both present alt cert in general—and TFA in particular—as a problem, as a project that urgently needs fixing.
Beck had accidentally destroyed hours of urgently needed American reports.
Darwish spoke to me urgently, saying that the origin of violence in the Middle East came from the Israeli-Palestinian divide.
Historical Examples of urgently
You see, the ball had been announced, and immediate money was urgently needed.
Jennie Baxter, JournalistRobert Barr
His solitude terrified him, and he urgently entreated his sister to come to him.
Doctor PascalEmile Zola
Now, was ever a country so urgently in want of a little repose as ours?
Nuts and NutcrackersCharles James Lever
"You had better go, sir," one of the sisters said, urgently.
The Young Franc TireursG. A. Henty
She would not let him go, but he went on urgently entreating.
Russian Fairy TalesW. R. S. Ralston
urgent
- requiring or compelling speedy action or attentionthe matter is urgent; an urgent message
- earnest and persistent
Word Origin for urgent
Word Origin and History for urgently
urgent
mid-15c., from Middle French urgent "pressing, impelling" (14c.), from Latin urgentem (nominative urgens), present participle of urgere "to press hard, urge" (see urge (v.)). Related: Urgently.