Urgent
/ˈɝ.d͡ʒənt/ adj
adj ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Requiring immediate attention.
"An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance."
- 2 Of people: insistent, solicitous.
"The Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste."
Adjective
- 1 compelling immediate action wordnet
Example
More examples"I canceled my appointment because of urgent business."
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.