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| Main Entry: | urgent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | needing immediate attention |
| Synonyms: | burning*, capital, chief, clamant, clamorous, compelling, critical, crucial, crying*, demanding, driving, essential, exigent, foremost, heavy*, immediate, imperative, important, importunate, indispensable, insistent, instant, leading, momentous, necessary, paramount, persuasive, pressing, primary, principal, required, salient, serious, touchy*, vital, wanted, weighty*, called-for, demanded, hurry-up, impelling, life and death, top-priority, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | moderate, unimportant, unnecessary |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cogent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | effective |
| Synonyms: | apposite, apt, compelling, conclusive, consequential, convincing, fitting, forceful, forcible, influential, irresistible, meaningful, momentous, persuasive, pertinent, potent, powerful, relevant, satisfactory, satisfying, significant, solid, sound, strong, telling, urgent, valid, weighty, well-grounded, convictive, inducing, justified, puissant, suasive |
| Antonyms: | impotent, ineffective, invalid, weak |
| Main Entry: | compulsive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | driving, obsessive |
| Synonyms: | compelling, enthusiastic, irresistible, overwhelming, passionate, uncontrollable, urgent, besetting |
| Notes: | a compulsive eater is compelled by an exterior force to eat and eats constantly; an impulsive eater is impelled (has an impulse) to eat, occurring sporadically, and eats only from time to time |
| Antonyms: | free, independent, controlled, easy-going |
| Main Entry: | crucial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | critical, important |
| Synonyms: | acute, central, clamorous, compelling, deciding, decisive, desperate, dire, essential, imperative, insistent, momentous, necessary, pivotal, pressing, searching, showdown*, touchy, urgent, vital, climacteric, climatic, hanging by thread, high-priority, on thin ice, touch and go |
| Antonyms: | trivial, uncritical, unimportant, inessential |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dangerous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazardous, troubling |
| Synonyms: | alarming, bad, breakneck*, chancy, critical, deadly, delicate, dynamite, exposed, fatal, formidable, hairy*, heavy*, hot*, impending, impregnable, insecure, loaded, malignant, menacing, mortal, nasty, perilous, portentous, precarious, pressing, queasy, risky, serious, serpentine, shaky, speculative, terrible, thorny*, threatening, ticklish*, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, ugly*, unhealthy, unsafe, unstable, urgent, viperous, vulnerable, wicked, dangersome, jeopardous, on collision course, parlous |
| Antonyms: | careful, guarded, safe, secure, untroubled, unhazardous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hasty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | speedy; without much thought |
| Synonyms: | abrupt, agile, brash, breakneck*, brief, brisk, careless, cursory, eager, expeditious, fast, fiery, fleet, fleeting, foolhardy, headlong, heedless, hurried, ill-advised, impatient, impetuous, impulsive, incautious, inconsiderate, madcap*, on the double*, passing, perfunctory, precipitate, prompt, pronto*, quick, quickie, rapid, rash, reckless, rushed, short, slapdash*, snappy*, sudden, superficial, swift, thoughtless, urgent, PDQ, chop-chop*, harefooted, quickened, slambang |
| Antonyms: | delayed, lazy, slow, lingering, loitering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | importunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding, insistent |
| Synonyms: | burning, clamant, clamorous, crying, disturbing, dogged, earnest, exigent, imperative, instant, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, pressing, solicitous, troublesome, urgent, harassing, overly solicitous |
| Antonyms: | unimportant, relaxed, undemanding |
| Main Entry: | insatiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious, wanting |
| Synonyms: | clamorous, crying, demanding, desiring, exigent, gluttonous, greedy, importunate, insistent, intemperate, pressing, rapacious, ravenous, unsatisfied, urgent, yearning, insatiate, quenchless, unappeasable, unquenchable, unsatisfiable |
| Antonyms: | fulfilled, full, pleased, satisfied, satiable |
| Main Entry: | insistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | demanding |
| Synonyms: | assertive, burning, clamant, clamorous, continuous, crying, dire, dogged, emphatic, exigent, forceful, imperative, imperious, importunate, incessant, obstinate, peremptory, persevering, persistent, pressing, resolute, unrelenting, urgent, perseverant, reiterative, resounding |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, indifferent, lenient, tolerant |
| Main Entry: | irresistible |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compelling; inescapable |
| Synonyms: | alluring, charming, enchanting, fascinating, glamorous, imperative, indomitable, ineluctable, inevitable, inexorable, invincible, lovable, overpowering, overwhelming, potent, powerful, ravishing, scrumptious, seductive, stunning, tempting, unavoidable, unconquerable, urgent, beckoning |
| Antonyms: | avoidable, escapable, resistible |
| Main Entry: | life-and-death |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extremely important |
| Synonyms: | consequential, critical, crucial, determining, essential, imperative, important, indispensable, meaningful, paramount, pivotal, serious, significant, urgent, vital, all-important, earth-shaking, earth-shattering, life or death, of vital importance, vitally important |
| Main Entry: | newsworthy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | important |
| Synonyms: | consequential, critical, crucial, essential, far-reaching, great, influential, material, meaningful, momentous, paramount, relevant, serious, significant, urgent, vital, front-page, of note, of substance |
| Main Entry: | incumbent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | obligatory |
| Synonyms: | binding, compelling, necessary, urgent |
| Main Entry: | requiring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | needing |
| Synonyms: | compelling, demanding, dire, exacting, immediate, pressing, urgent, calling for, forcing, involving, necessitating |
| Main Entry: | earnest |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very enthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | ardent, busy, devoted, diligent, eager, fervent, fervid, heartfelt, impassioned, industrious, keen, passionate, purposeful, sedulous, sincere, urgent, vehement, warm, wholehearted, zealous, perseverant |
| Antonyms: | flippant, unconcerned, unenthusiastic, unpassionate, unpurposeful, unthoughtful |
| Main Entry: | immediate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | instantaneous; without delay |
| Synonyms: | actual, critical, current, existing, extant, first, instant, live, next, now, paramount, present, pressing, prompt, up-to-date*, urgent, at once, at present time, at this moment, hair-trigger, on hand |
| Antonyms: | eventually, later, never |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | imperative |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | necessary |
| Synonyms: | acute, burning, clamant, clamorous, compulsory, critical, crucial, crying, essential, exigent, immediate, important, importunate, indispensable, inescapable, insistent, instant, obligatory, pressing, urgent, vital, no turning back |
| Antonyms: | optional, secondary, unnecessary, voluntary, inessential |
| Main Entry: | important |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | valuable, substantial |
| Synonyms: | big, chief, considerable, conspicuous, critical, crucial, decisive, determining, earnest, essential, exceptional, exigent, extensive, far-reaching, foremost, grave, great, heavy, imperative, importunate, influential, large, marked, material, meaningful, momentous, necessary, paramount, ponderous, pressing, primary, principal, relevant, salient, serious, signal, significant, something, urgent, vital, weighty, big-league*, esteemed, front-page, mattering much, of moment, of note, of substance, standout |
| Antonyms: | insignificant, little, nonessential, small, trivial, unimportant, unsubstantial, inappreciable |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | necessary |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | essential |
| Synonyms: | basic, binding, cardinal, chief, compelling, compulsory, crucial, de rigueur*, decisive, elementary, exigent, expedient, fundamental, imperative, indispensable, mandatory, momentous, needed, obligatory, paramount, prerequisite, pressing, prime, principal, quintessential, required, requisite, significant, specified, unavoidable, urgent, vital, wanted, all-important, bottom-line, incumbent on, name of game, needful |
| Antonyms: | unimportant, unnecessary, useless, inessential |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | violent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | destructive |
| Synonyms: | agitated, berserk, bloodthirsty, brutal, crazy, cruel, desperate, distraught, disturbed, enraged, fierce, fiery, forceful, forcible, frantic, furious, great, headstrong, homicidal, hotheaded*, hysterical, impassioned, impetuous, inflamed, intemperate, mad, maniacal, mighty, murderous, passionate, potent, powerful, raging, riotous, rough, savage, strong, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unrestrained, urgent, vehement, vicious, wild, aroused, coercive, demoniac, fuming, maddened |
| Antonyms: | gentle, passive, peaceful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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