compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing:
an urgent matter.
2.
insistent or earnest in solicitation; importunate, as a person:
an urgent pleader.
3.
expressed with insistence, as requests or appeals:
an urgent tone of voice.
Origin
1490-1500; < Latinurgent- (stem of urgēns), present participle of urgēre to urge; see -ent
Related forms
urgently, adverb
nonurgent, adjective
nonurgently, adverb
superurgent, adjective
superurgently, adverb
unurgent, adjective
unurgently, adverb
Examples from the web for urgent
urgent problems, or rather problems perceived to be urgent, get attention.
The word urgent and the feeling of urgency compel one to immediate attention or action.
People tend to tackle urgent life tasks before important financial ones.
It's not urgent for you to impress other people, beyond your dissertation committee.
So activities can be urgent and important, not urgent but important, urgent but not important and neither urgent nor important.
Conservationists said urgent action may stop the virus from spreading.
There is now an urgent need for a new look into the crystal ball of quantum physics.
When disaster strikes, the need for short-term housing is immediate and urgent.
It's not urgent but needs to be done in the next few months.
So any technocratic caretaker should prepare for urgent elections that could produce a government for reform.
British Dictionary definitions for urgent
urgent
/ˈɜːdʒənt/
adjective
1.
requiring or compelling speedy action or attention: the matter is urgent, an urgent message
2.
earnest and persistent
Derived Forms
urgency (ˈɜːdʒənsɪ) noun urgently, adverb
Word Origin
C15: via French from Latin urgent-, urgens, present participle of urgēre to urge
Word Origin and History for urgent
adj.
mid-15c., from Middle French urgent "pressing, impelling" (14c.), from Latin urgentem (nominative urgens), present participle of urgere "to press hard, urge" (see urge (v.)). Related: Urgently.