urgent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, Australia) IPA^(key): /ˈɜːdʒənt/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɚdʒənt/

• Audio (US)

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Adjective

urgent (comparative more urgent, superlative most urgent)

1. Requiring immediate attention.

   An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.

Synonyms

• pressing
• needly

Derived terms

• urgently
• urgency

Related terms

• urge

Translations

requiring immediate attention

• Arabic: مُسْتَعْجِل‏‎ (mustaʿjil)
• Catalan: urgent (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緊急 (zh), 紧急 (zh) (jǐnjí), 緊迫 (zh), 紧迫 (zh) (jǐnpò), 急迫 (zh) (jípò)

• Czech: naléhavý m, urgentní (cs)
• Dutch: dringend (nl)
• Esperanto: urĝa
• Finnish: kiireellinen (fi)
• French: urgent (fr)
• Galician: urxente
• German: dringend (de), dringlich (de), eilig (de)
• Greek: επείγων (el) (epeígon)
• Hebrew: דחוף‏‎ (dakhúf)
• Hungarian: sürgős (hu)
• Ido: urjanta (io)
• Interlingua: urgente

• Irish: práinneach
• Italian: urgente (it)
• Japanese: 緊急の (ja) (きんきゅうの, kinkyū no), 急を要する (きゅうをようする, kyū o yō-suru)
• Korean: 긴급한 (ko) (gingeup-han)
• Kurdish: lezgîn (ku)
• Maori: nonoi, kōhukihuki
• Polish: pilny (pl) m
• Portuguese: urgente (pt)
• Russian: сро́чный (ru) (sróčnyj), э́кстренный (ru) (ékstrennyj), неотло́жный (ru) (neotlóžnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: faochnach
• Spanish: urgente (es), acuciante (es)
• Swedish: brådskande (sv)
• Telugu: అత్యవసరం (atyavasaraṃ)
• Turkish: ivedi (tr), acil (tr)
• Ukrainian: терміно́вий (terminóvyj)
• Yiddish: אײַליק‏‎ (aylik)

Anagrams

• gunter, gurnet

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French

Pronunciation

• audio

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Adjective

urgent (feminine singular urgente, masculine plural urgents, feminine plural urgentes)

1. urgent

Related terms

• urgence
• urger

Derived terms

• urgentiste
• urgentologie
• urgentologue
• urgentologiste

See also

• pressé

Further reading

• “urgent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Latin

Verb

urgent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of urgeō