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urgent
adjective as in needing immediate attention
Strongest matches
compelling, critical, crucial, demanding, essential, immediate, imperative, important, indispensable, necessary, persuasive, pressing, serious, vital, weighty
Weak matches
burning, called-for, capital, chief, clamant, clamorous, crying, demanded, driving, exigent, foremost, heavy, hurry-up, impelling, importunate, insistent, instant, leading, life and death, momentous, paramount, primary, principal, required, salient, top-priority, touch and go, touchy, wanted
Example Sentences
In a closed-door Capitol Hill meeting with the committee in September, some of Epstein’s victims delivered a more urgent message to lawmakers, according to people who attended: Collecting documents isn’t enough.
A more urgent problem for some pension managers is trying to make sure that these evergreen funds don’t erode their own profits or increase their costs.
She is demanding "urgent action" about one of the UK's biggest cancer killers.
I use a clothesline on the balcony and a laundromat nearby in case I have an urgent need to dry things.
“This problem hasn’t been as urgent until right now, when we are seeing the end of reliable GPS. It is the arms race of the current day, in terms of navigation.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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