Exigent

Synonyms for "exigent" (108 found)

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Translations

36 translations across 13 languages.

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Bulgarian

3 entries
  • взискателен adj (demanding; needing great effort)
  • належащ adj (urgent; needing immediate action)
  • неотложен adj (urgent; needing immediate action)

Catalan

1 entries
  • exigent adj (demanding; needing great effort)

Chinese Mandarin

3 entries
  • 緊急 /紧急 adj (urgent; needing immediate action)
  • 苛求 adj (demanding; needing great effort)
  • 迫切 adj (urgent; needing immediate action)

Dutch

2 entries
  • dringend adj (urgent; needing immediate action)
  • veeleisend adj (demanding; needing great effort)

Finnish

2 entries
  • kiireellinen adj (urgent; needing immediate action)
  • vaativa adj (demanding; needing great effort)

French

3 entries
  • exigeant adj (demanding; needing great effort)
  • pressant adj (urgent; needing immediate action)
  • urgent adj (urgent; needing immediate action)

German

4 entries
  • anspruchsvoll adj (demanding; needing great effort)
  • dringend adj (urgent; needing immediate action)
  • dringlich adj (urgent; needing immediate action)
  • ernst adj (urgent; needing immediate action)

Hungarian

4 entries
  • igényes adj (demanding; needing great effort)
  • követelő adj (demanding; needing great effort)
  • követelődző adj (demanding; needing great effort)
  • szorongató adj (urgent; needing immediate action)

Italian

1 entries
  • esigente adj (demanding; needing great effort)

Polish

4 entries
  • naglący adj (urgent; needing immediate action)
  • pilny adj (urgent; needing immediate action)
  • wymagający adj (demanding; needing great effort)
  • skrajność noun (extremity)

Portuguese

2 entries
  • exigente adj (urgent; needing immediate action)
  • exigente adj (demanding; needing great effort)

Russian

3 entries
  • неотло́жный adj (urgent; needing immediate action)
  • сро́чный adj (urgent; needing immediate action)
  • кра́йность noun (extremity)

Spanish

2 entries
  • exigente adj (demanding; needing great effort)
  • urgente adj (urgent; needing immediate action)

Sample sentences

5 total sentences available.

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2003, Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations, U.S. Department of Defence Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority.

Source: wiktionary

Theſe Eyes, like Lampes, whoſe waſting Oyle is ſpent, / Waxe dimme, as drawing to their Exigent.

Source: wiktionary

Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome [Cicero 5° de finibus.], there was one or other that called for an interpreter: ſo leſt the Church be driuen to the like exigent, it is neceſſary to haue tranſlations in a readineſſe.

Source: wiktionary

[H]is enterprise / Marked out anew, its exigent of wit / Apportioned, she at liberty to sit / And scheme against the next emergence, […]

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