Synonyms for urgent
ˈɜr dʒəntur·gent

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1. urgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   pressing

2. urgentadjective

   Requiring immediate attention.

   An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.

   Synonyms:
   pressing

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1. urgent

   Synonyms:
   pressing, imperative, immediate, importunate, forcible, strenuous, serious, grave, momentous, indeferrible

   Antonyms:
   unimportant, insignificant, trifling, trivial, deferrable

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1. pressing, urgentadjective

   compelling immediate action

   "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"

   Synonyms:
   pressing

   Antonyms:
   beseeching, imploring, pleading

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1. urgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   pressing, cogent, importunate, pertinacious, earnestly solicitous

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1. urgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   pressing, imperative, insistent, exigent, importunate, pertinacious, imperious

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1. List of paraphrases for "urgent":

   pressing, emergency, urgency, urgently, immediate, compelling, imperative, exigency, acute, prompt, speedy, flash, contingency, dire, time-sensitive, rapid

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1. Leader McConnell:

   As soon as the partisan impeachment votes had finished, the prosecutors began to develop cold feet. Instead of sending the articles to the Senate, they flinched, the same people who just spent weeks screaming that impeachment was so serious and so urgent that it couldn't wait for due process now decided it could wait indefinitely while they checked the political winds and looked for some new talking points.

2. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov:

   Nowadays this threat is getting extremely urgent in the light of newly revealed facts of repeated use of not only industrial toxic chemicals but also of full-fledged chemical warfare agents by ISIL and other terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, there is a growing danger of similar crimes being committed on the territory of Libya and Yemen as well.

3. Neeraj Prasad:

   This is an urgent problem.

4. Aaron Bernstein:

   It's clear that many more people are seeing climate as an urgent issue of the present and that it's harming them now, i also was struck to see the numbers of people who identify climate change as happening and the percent of those people, some 62%, who feel helpless about climate change. Almost the same percent are angry.

5. Scott Morrison:

   Today is about ensuring we deal with the urgent crisis that is existing across fire grounds in four states in particular, to ensure we're giving everything that is needed on ground without being asked.