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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
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Example Sentences
There are many problems plaguing California at the moment that demand urgent attention.
Nothing is that urgent, and if it is, your team will call or text you.
The more obvious something seems, the more urgent the need to question it.
Sustainability isn’t just an urgent ethical issue — it sells.
“Agencies recognize that there’s an urgent need to envision themselves as a group that values diversity but they’re not there yet,” said Nandi Welch, co-founder and head of business strategy for the brand consultancy Rupture.
The need for increased community policing is more urgent than ever before.
“The recent earthquakes make this project urgent,” Franceschini told reporters.
Then, depending on how urgent I think it is to get it, sometimes I have to go back home and drop it off.
Is there anyone who thinks the urgent problem we need to solve in Washington, D.C. is how to allow more spending on campaigns?
We need to strike a balance between creating false alarms and letting any urgent medical matters fall through the cracks.
They are very urgent questions; our sons and daughters will have to begin to deal with them from the moment they leave college.
Nor is there anyone of that order who talks of going back to those kingdoms without the most urgent reason making it necessary.
I humbly petition your Majesty to be pleased to order that he be despatched here, so that this so urgent need may be supplied.
Never again would she ignore an urgent telegram, though she did not believe that this telegram had any real importance.
In the first place, there is an immediate and urgent demand for at least Half a Million comfortable rain-proof dwellings.
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On this page you'll find 108 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to urgent, such as: compelling, critical, crucial, demanding, essential, and immediate.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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