urgent

[UrĀ·gent]

If something is urgent it requires immediate attention or action. If you break your leg, you'll need urgent attention at the hospital that means the doctors will tend to you without delay.

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Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.

Adjective S.
compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!''"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"


a.
Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.


Urgent

Ur"gent , a. [L. urgens, p. pr. of urgere: cf. F. urgent. See Urge.] Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak.
Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary.
The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.

Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.

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Usage Examples

I came to poetry through the urgent need to denounce injustice, exploitation, humiliation. I know that's not enough to change the world. But to remain silent would have been a kind of intolerable complicity.

To be clear, climate change is a true 800 pound gorilla in the room. The effects of global warming threaten global environmental upheaval over the coming century. But for South Florida and the Everglades, it could be our death knell if urgent action is not taken.

I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left.

A fascinating challenge facing today's environmental movement is how to best approach the reversal of past decisions that altered once-pristine environmental spaces for the sake of urgent man-made needs.

I think we have grave problems. I am very much concerned about environmental questions, even though in Finnish society, we are not facing the most urgent problems.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

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Other Usage Examples

There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.

There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.

America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.

The most important and urgent problems of the technology of today are no longer the satisfactions of the primary needs or of archetypal wishes, but the reparation of the evils and damages by the technology of yesterday.

And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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