urgent

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, Australia) IPA: /ˈɜːdʒənt/, X-SAMPA: /"3:dZ@nt/
• (US, Canada) IPA: /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

Derived terms

• urgently
• urgency

Related terms

• urge

Translations

requiring immediate attention

• Arabic: مستعجل (ar) (mustaʿjil)
• Chinese:

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

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

• Italian: urgente (it)
• Japanese: 緊急の (ja) (きんきゅうの, kinkyū no), 急を要する (ja) (きゅうをようする, kyū o yō-suru)
• Korean: 긴급한 (ko) (gingeup-han)
• Kurdish: lezgîn (ku)
• Maori: nonoi (mi)
• Polish: pilny (pl) m
• Portuguese: urgente (pt)
• Russian: срочный (ru) (sróčnyj), экстренный (ru) (ékstrennyj), неотложный (ru) (neotlóžnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: faochnach (gd)
• Spanish: urgente (es), acuciante (es)
• Swedish: brådskande
• Telugu: అత్యవసరం (te) (atyavasaram)
• Turkish: ivedi (tr), acil (tr)

Anagrams

• Gunter

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

urgent m (feminine urgente, masculine plural urgents, feminine 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