urgent

urgent

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French urgent (pressing, impelling), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (to press), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (bind, squeeze). Related to German würgen (to strangle), Lithuanian ver̃žti (to string, tighten, constrict), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, to open, literally to untie), Polish otwierać (to open)) and English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.

Pronunciation

  • (UK, General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/
  • (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɝ.d͡ʒənt/
  • Hyphenation: ur‧gent

Adjective

urgent (comparative more urgent, superlative most urgent)

  1. Requiring immediate attention.
    Synonyms: pressing, needly
  2. Of people: insistent, solicitous.

Usage notes

The primary meaning of urgent is as a description of a pressing need. Especially in journalistic contexts, it is sometimes used by transference to describe the thing needed, or to mean "happening very soon", which some deem erroneous.

Derived terms

Related terms

  • urge

Translations

Anagrams

  • Gunter, gunter, gurnet

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin urgentem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [urˈʒen]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [urˈʒent]
  • IPA(key): (Valencian) [uɾˈd͡ʒent]

Adjective

urgent m or f (masculine and feminine plural urgents)

  1. urgent

Derived terms

  • urgentment

Related terms

  • urgència
  • urgir

Further reading

  • “urgent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
  • “urgent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
  • “urgent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
  • “urgent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin urgentem, present participle of urgeō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /yʁ.ʒɑ̃/

Adjective

urgent (feminine urgente, masculine plural urgents, feminine plural urgentes)

  1. urgent

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

  • pressé

Further reading

  • “urgent”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈur.ɡent/, [ˈʊrɡɛn̪t̪]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈur.d͡ʒent/, [ˈurd͡ʒen̪t̪]

Verb

urgent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of urgeō

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

  • ürgent

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /yrˈd͡ʒɛŋt/

Adjective

urgent

  1. urgent

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French urgent, from Latin urgens.

Adjective

urgent m or n (feminine singular urgentă, masculine plural urgenți, feminine and neuter plural urgente)

  1. urgent

Declension

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