Synonyms for urgently
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1. urgentlyadverb

   Antonyms:
   apathetically, half-heartedly

2. urgentlyadverb

   With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.

   Synonyms:
   pressingly, imperatively

   Antonyms:
   apathetically, half-heartedly

3. urgentlyadverb

   Continuously. With insistence.

   He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.

   Synonyms:
   persuasively, persistently

   Antonyms:
   apathetically, half-heartedly

Princeton's WordNetRate this synonym:3.5 / 2 votes

1. urgently, desperatelyadverb

   with great urgency

   "health care reform is needed urgently"; "the soil desperately needed potash"

   Synonyms:
   desperately

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1. List of paraphrases for "urgently":

   urgent, emergency, desperately, quickly, sorely, badly, immediately, promptly, urgency, rapidly, swiftly, expeditiously, absolutely, contingency, speedily

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1. Aylan Kurdi:

   It is too late for my family, for Aylan, but they need all your help, we need action -- a plan to make it happen urgently. And I hope you all understand it could happen to anyone's family. Open your heart and help someone.

2. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere:

   If nobody sticks to the law, then Schengen is in danger. That's why we urgently need European solutions.

3. Sheikh Salman:

   In this time of uncertainty surrounding soccer's world governing body FIFA, it is clear that what is needed, more urgently than ever, is a firm hand to run the world body competently and with a determination to conduct its affairs professionally and with maximum transparency.

4. Aliko Dangote:

   The high investment risk climate and upfront capital cost of energy investments, particularly renewables, are critical barriers to the development of energy markets, the world urgently needs a new economic revolution driven yet again by adaptations in energy utilization, only this time with a greater consciousness of the environment and resource conservation.

5. Nikole Hannah-Jones:

   Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates are at a critical juncture in Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates democracy, and yet Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates press does not reflect the nation it serves and too often struggles to grasp the danger for Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates country as Nikole Hannah-Jones and Ta-Nehisi Coates see growing attacks on free speech and the fundamental right to vote, in the storied tradition of the Black press, the Center for Journalism and Democracy will help produce journalists capable of accurately and urgently covering the challenges of our democracy with a clarity, skepticism, rigor and historical dexterity that is too often missing from today's journalism.