urgently

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urgently

adverb more urgently · most urgently

  1. With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important. We all urgently need to apply solutions to the problem of pollution.

    Similar: imperatively, pressingly, emergently

  2. Continuously. With insistence. He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.

Similar: persistently, persuasively · Opposite: apathetically, half-heartedly

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: desperately, urgency, exigent, emergency, exigency, pressingly, pressing, hurriedly, hastily, expeditiously, quickly, speedily, swiftly, rapidly, quick, insistently

adverb

Similar: persistently, persuasively · Opposite: apathetically, half-heartedly

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adv with a sense of urgency

Españolurgentemente, de ahora para ahorita, por luego
한국어긴급하게 gin'geuphage
日本語緊急に kinkyū ni
中文緊急地 /紧急地 jǐnjí de
Portuguêsurgentemente
Françaisurgemment, d'urgence
Deutschdringend
Italianourgentemente
Ελληνικάεπειγόντως epeigóntos
Русскийсро́чно sróčno, э́кстренно ékstrenno, спе́шно spéšno

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@misc{urgently_2026,
  title = {urgently},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/urgently},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}