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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
She insisted that the UK government had the "levers for an industrial intervention" - citing British Steel's plant in Scunthorpe - and the ability to take "urgent action to address the high cost of energy".
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.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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