urgent

English

Etymology

Latin urgente ('pressing') from urgere ('to press').

Pronunciation

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/ˈɜːdʒənt/, /"3:dZ@nt/

Adjective

urgent (comparative more urgent, superlative most urgent)

1. Requiring immediate attention.

   An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.

Synonyms

• pressing

Derived terms

• urgently
• urgency

Related terms

• urge

Translations

requiring immediate attention

Arabic: مستعجل (mustaʕjil) Chinese: trad. 緊迫, simpl. 紧迫 (pinyin: jǐnpò), trad. and simpl. 急迫 (pinyin: jǐnjí) Czech: naléhavý (cs) m. Dutch: dringend (nl) Esperanto: urĝa French: urgent (fr) Galician: urxente (gl) German: dringend (de) Hungarian: sürgős (hu) Ido: urjanta (io) Interlingua: urgente

Irish: práinneach (ga) Italian: urgente (it) Japanese: 急を要する (ja) (kyū wo yōsuru), 緊急の (ja) (kinkyū no) Korean: 긴급한 (gingeuphan) Kurdish: lezgîn (ku) (l) Portuguese: urgente (pt) Russian: срочный (ru) (sróčnyj) Scottish Gaelic: faochnach (gd) Spanish: urgente (es), acuciante (es) Swedish: brådskande Telugu: అత్యవసరం (te) (atyavasaram) Turkish: ivedi (tr), acil (tr)

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Adjective

urgent m. (f. urgente, m. plural urgents, f. plural urgentes)

1. urgent

Related terms

• urgence
• urger

See also

• pressé

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Latin

Verb

urgent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of urgeō