Synonyms for urgent
ˈɜr dʒəntur·gent

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1. urgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   pressing

2. urgentadjective

   Requiring immediate attention.

   An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.

   Synonyms:
   pressing

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1. urgent

   Synonyms:
   pressing, imperative, immediate, importunate, forcible, strenuous, serious, grave, momentous, indeferrible

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, insignificant, trifling, trivial, deferrable

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1. pressing, urgentadjective

   compelling immediate action

   "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"

   Synonyms:
   pressing

   Antonyms:
   beseeching, imploring, pleading

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1. urgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   pressing, cogent, importunate, pertinacious, earnestly solicitous

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1. urgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   pressing, imperative, insistent, exigent, importunate, pertinacious, imperious

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1. List of paraphrases for "urgent":

   pressing, emergency, urgency, urgently, immediate, compelling, imperative, exigency, acute, prompt, speedy, flash, contingency, dire, time-sensitive, rapid

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1. Heather Kerr:

   We are at a crossroads. If we don't take urgent steps to contain this, the outbreak might last another six months, if not the whole year, it is paramount to convince communities that Ebola is an urgent and real concern. People have disrupted funerals because they didn't believe the deceased had succumbed to the virus. Aid workers were threatened because it was believed they spread Ebola.

2. Simon Stuart:

   Their decline can have serious knock-on effects on other species and the many benefits provided by nature, while it is encouraging to see some positive outcomes of conservation action, this update is an important wake-up call, showing that urgent efforts need to be taken to protect these species.

3. Mitch McConnell:

   Its Senate Democrats only sure path to making a law with anywhere near the urgency these Americans deserve. It is the only bill on the table with any provision for the Midwest flooding, and, its the only bill on the table that could earn a presidential signature in time to deliver urgent relief on the nutrition assistance in Puerto Rico.

4. John Ging:

   The government of Nepal has rightly shifted the focus of its efforts from immediate relief to longer term recovery and reconstruction, but this must not come at the expense of families who still require life-saving assistance, backlogs of essential shelter materials continue at Kathmandu airport and the Indian border due to bureaucratic impediments. This is delaying aid reaching 100,000 families who require urgent shelter assistance as the monsoon season begins.

5. Lars Foerberg:

   There is now an urgent need and opportunity to address the significant and persistent underperformance of the industrial businesses.