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. Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka:

   People around the world recognize that gender equality is an issue of our time. And that it is an issue that has been (made) more urgent by COVID-19.

2. Carolyn Fairbairn:

   We really need a decision on airport capacity, it's urgent and it's not optional.

3. Sabrina Kent:

   We drove under a tree that had fallen over and there was burning limbs and it was like urgent and scary to get out.

4. Francisco Jose Lloreda:

   The country doesn't have the luxury of being able to wait for the reactivation of crude prices to take the urgent measures needed.

5. Lars Foerberg:

   There is now an urgent need and opportunity to address the significant and persistent underperformance of the industrial businesses.