more urgent

ADJECTIVE

needing immediate attention

Synonyms

STRONGEST

compelling critical crucial demanding essential immediate imperative important indispensable necessary persuasive pressing serious vital weighty

WEAK

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

Antonyms

STRONGEST

easy facile inessential insignificant light minor needless nonessential optional secondary small trivial uncritical unimportant unnecessary unsubstantial voluntary

WEAK

moderate

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more urgent

That lesson — how to genuinely inhabit a shared world with others — has never felt more urgent.

From Salon ● Jul. 30, 2026

“In more urgent circumstances, support may access live video during a trip,” the Waymo page said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 7, 2026

Calum Miller MP for Bicester and Woodstock, who was sent the documents by defence minister Luke Pollard, said the detail in the documents makes the need for testing "all the more urgent".

From BBC ● Jun. 23, 2026

But the questions will only become more urgent, especially if Musk gets close to his goal—which, admittedly, is something more than a moonshot—of one million satellites.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

No task is more urgent for racial justice advocates today than ensuring that America’s current racial caste system is its last.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander