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urgent
- /ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/ Australia, UK
- /ˈɝ.d͡ʒənt/ Canada, US
Rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)dʒənt
Where it comes from
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.
adjective more urgent · most urgent
- Requiring immediate attention. An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
- Of people: insistent, solicitous. The Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.
Similar: acute, bad, clamant, crying, dire, sore, exigent, imperious, instant, rash, severe, pressing, pressive, urgent · Opposite: evergreen, nonurgent, unurgent
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: pressing, imperative, exigent, urgency, exigency, pressingly, emergency, insistent, overriding, overwhelming, tight, busy, prompt, hurry, expeditious, hasty
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adj requiring immediate attention
| Español | urgente, acuciante, apremiante, apremiar |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 긴급한 gin'geuphan |
| 日本語 | 緊急の kinkyū no, 急を要する kyū o yō-suru |
| 中文 | 緊急 /紧急 jǐnjí, 緊迫 /紧迫 jǐnpò, 急迫 jípò |
| Português | urgente |
| Français | urgent |
| Deutsch | dringend, dringlich, eilig |
| Italiano | urgente |
| Ελληνικά | επείγων epeígon |
| Русский | сро́чный sróčnyj, э́кстренный ékstrennyj, неотло́жный neotlóžnyj, спе́шный spéšnyj |
| العربية | مُسْتَعْجَل mustaʕjal, عَاجِل ʕājil, مُلِحّ muliḥḥ |
| עברית | דחוף dakhúf |
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title = {urgent},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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