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most 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

Example Sentences

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Among the many questions surrounding the incident, two felt the most urgent on Friday night: How long will the evacuation last?

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

"China has repeatedly made clear its solemn position. The most urgent task is to do everything to avoid the resumption of conflict, not to use the conflict to... maliciously smear other countries."

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

Securing alternative supplies counted as “the most urgent task for overcoming the economic emergency,” he said.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 2026

Canada has recently made the Arctic a focus of its national security policy, asserting in 2024 that Canada's sovereignty in the north "is the most urgent and important task".

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

And third, and most urgent, there was a question she had been asking for a week: Where was the acorn?

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman