- compelling
- critical
- crucial
- demanding
- essential
- immediate
- imperative
- important
- indispensable
- necessary
- persuasive
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- serious
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- weighty
- burning
- called-for
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- driving
- exigent
- foremost
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- hurry-up
- impelling
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- insistent
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- leading
- life and death
- momentous
- paramount
- primary
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- required
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- top-priority
- touch and go
- touchy
- wanted
On this page you’ll find 109 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to urgent, such as: compelling, critical, crucial, demanding, essential, and immediate.
antonyms for urgent
- easy
- facile
- inessential
- insignificant
- light
- minor
- needless
- nonessential
- optional
- secondary
- small
- trivial
- uncritical
- unimportant
- unnecessary
- unsubstantial
- voluntary
- moderate
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WORDS RELATED TO URGENT
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Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
1 compelling, critical, crucial, exigent, immediate, imperative, important, instant, not to be delayed, now or never, pressing, top-priority
2 clamorous, earnest, importunate, insistent, intense, persistent, persuasive
Antonyms
apathetic, casual, feeble, half-hearted, lackadaisical, low-priority, minor, perfunctory, trivial, unimportant, weak
English Collins Dictionary — English synonyms & Thesaurus 
urgent
1 adj If something is urgent, it needs to be dealt with as soon as possible.
(=pressing)
There is an urgent need for food and water…, He had urgent business in New York.
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urgency n-uncount
The urgency of finding a cure attracted some of the best minds in medical science…, It is a matter of utmost urgency.
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urgently adv ADV with v
Red Cross officials said they urgently needed bread and water…, The money was most urgently required.
2 adj If you speak in an urgent way, you show that you are anxious for people to notice something or to do something.
His voice was low and urgent…, His mother leaned forward and spoke to him in urgent undertones.
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urgency n-uncount
She was surprised at the urgency in his voice…
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urgently adv ADV with v
They hastened to greet him and asked urgently, `Did you find it?’
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emergency, needing immediate attention
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Requiring immediate attention.
An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
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urgent
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pressing, imperative, immediate, importunate, forcible, strenuous, serious, grave, momentous, indeferribleAntonyms:
unimportant, insignificant, trifling, trivial, deferrable
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pressing, urgentadjective
compelling immediate action
«too pressing to permit of longer delay»; «the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'»; «bridges in urgent need of repair»
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pressingAntonyms:
beseeching, imploring, pleading
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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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Joe Biden:
As he remarked during his 2008 visit to the White House, ‘the need for global solidarity is as urgent as ever, if all people are to live in a way worthy of their dignity.’ May his focus on the ministry of charity continue to be an inspiration to us all.
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Yemen Philippe Clerc:
Otherwise, this ever deepening, man-made and totally avoidable humanitarian crisis will drain the country of the few resources it has and push people to the edge, without urgent action, shortages could kill more people than bullets or bombs.
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Elizabeth Reese:
We’ve already had to figure out alternative ways to privately pay for abortions and had to drive hundreds of miles, i don’t think this will force a lot of tribes to feel like this is an urgent change for them.
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Nils Melzer:
My most urgent concern is that, in the United States, Mr. Assange would be exposed to a real risk of serious violations of his human rights, including his freedom of expression, his right to a fair trial and the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
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Billie Eilish:
This year our leaders are deciding the global actions required on the environment climate emergency in a critical decade for our planet, we must stand together and speak up to save our planet, not just for us, but for our future generations, and we need urgent, urgent action now and to work together as one.
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