- that needs to be dealt with or happen immediately synonym pressing
- The police have issued an urgent appeal for information.
- a problem that requires urgent attention
- ‘Can I see you for a moment?’ ‘Is it urgent?’
- Mark the message ‘urgent’, please.
- The law is in urgent need of reform.
- They’ve called an urgent meeting for this evening.
- (formal) It is urgent that the law be changed.
Extra Examples- Don't forget that one, it's rather urgent.
- the increasingly urgent political situation at home
- The situation calls for urgent action.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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- showing that you think that something needs to be dealt with immediately
- an urgent whisper
- Her voice sounded urgent on the phone.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- sound
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
- …
Word Originlate 15th cent.: from Old French, from Latin urgent- ‘pressing, driving’, from the verb urgere ‘press, drive’.
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