urgent

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

  • Audio (US)

    (file)

• Hyphenation: ur‧gent

Adjective

urgent (comparative more urgent, superlative most urgent)

1. Requiring immediate attention.

   An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.

   Synonyms: pressing, needly

Usage notes

The primary meaning of urgent is as a description of a pressing need. Especially in journalistic contexts, it is sometimes used by transference to describe the thing needed, or to mean "happening very soon", which some deem erroneous.

Derived terms

• urgency
• urgently

 

Related terms

• urge

Translations

requiring immediate attention

• Arabic: مُسْتَعْجِل‎ (mustaʿjil)
• Armenian: շտապ (hy) (štap)
• Belarusian: тэрміно́вы (terminóvy), пі́льны (pílʹny)
• Bulgarian: сро́чен (bg) (sróčen), спе́шен (bg) (spéšen)
• 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 (cs) m, urgentní (cs)
• Danish: trængende
• 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) (gin-geuphan)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: lezgîn (ku)

• Latin: instans
• Maori: nonoi, kōhukihuki
• Plautdietsch: drinjent
• Polish: pilny (pl) m
• Portuguese: urgente (pt)
• Russian: сро́чный (ru) (sróčnyj), э́кстренный (ru) (ékstrennyj), неотло́жный (ru) (neotlóžnyj), спе́шный (ru) (spéšnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: faochnach
• Serbo-Croatian: hitan (sh) m
• Slovak: naliehavý
• Spanish: urgente (es), acuciante (es), apremiante (es)
• Swedish: brådskande (sv)
• Telugu: అత్యవసరం (atyavasaraṃ)
• Turkish: ivedi (tr), acil (tr), şaşılınç
• Ukrainian: терміно́вий (terminóvyj), спі́шний (uk) (spíšnyj), пи́льний (pýlʹnyj), нега́йний (nehájnyj)
• Yiddish: אײַליק‎ (aylik)

Anagrams

• Gunter, gunter, gurnet

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin urgens.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /uɾˈʒent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /urˈʒen/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /uɾˈd͡ʒent/

Adjective

urgent (masculine and feminine plural urgents)

1. urgent

Derived terms

• urgentment

Related terms

• urgència
• urgir

Further reading

• “urgent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “urgent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “urgent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “urgent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin urgens, present participle of urgeō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yʁ.ʒɑ̃/

• audio

  (file)

Adjective

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

1. urgent

Derived terms

• urgentiste
• urgentologie
• urgentologiste
• urgentologue

 

Related terms

• urgence
• urger

 

See also

• pressé

Further reading

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

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈur.ɡent/, [ˈʊr.ɡɛn̪t̪]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈur.d͡ʒent/, [ˈur.d͡ʒɛn̪t̪]

Verb

urgent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of urgeō

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Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• ürgent

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yrˈd͡ʒɛŋt/

Adjective

urgent

1. urgent