urgently

English

Etymology

From urgent +‎ -ly.

Adverb

urgently (comparative more urgently, superlative 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.

   Funds are urgently required if this work is to be completed as planned.

   • 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:

     And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...

2. Continuously. With insistence.

   He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.

Synonyms

• (great haste): imperatively, pressingly, emergently
• (continuously): persistently, persuasively

Antonyms

• apathetically
• half-heartedly

Translations

with a sense of urgency

• Armenian: շտապ (hy) (štap)
• Belarusian: тэрміно́ва (terminóva), пі́льна (pílʹna)
• Bulgarian: спе́шно (bg) (spéšno), сро́чно (bg) (sróčno)
• Catalan: urgentment (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 緊急地／紧急地 (zh) (jǐnjí de)

• Czech: naléhavě (cs)
• Esperanto: urĝe
• Finnish: kiireellisesti (fi), kiireesti (fi)
• French: urgemment (fr), d’urgence (fr)
• German: dringend (de)
• Greek: επειγόντως (el) (epeigóntos)
• Hungarian: sürgősen (hu)
• Italian: urgentemente (it)
• Japanese: 緊急に (ja) (きんきゅうに, kinkyū ni)
• Korean: 긴급하게 (ko) (gin'geuphage)
• Polish: pilnie (pl)
• Portuguese: urgentemente
• Russian: сро́чно (ru) (sróčno), э́кстренно (ru) (ékstrenno), спе́шно (ru) (spéšno)
• Slovak: naliehavo, súrne
• Spanish: urgentemente (es), de ahora para ahorita (Cuba), por luego (Cuba)
• Ukrainian: терміно́во (terminóvo), пи́льно (pýlʹno), спі́шно (spíšno)
• Walloon: strapanmint (wa)