Urgent
['ɜːdʒ(ə)nt] or ['ɝdʒənt]
Definition
(a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Pressing, cogent, importunate, pertinacious, earnestly solicitous.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Pressing, imperative, immediate, importunate, forcible, strenuous, serious,grave, momentous, indeferrible
ANT:Unimportant, insignificant, trifling, trivial, deferrable
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you are supporting an urgent petition, is a sign that you will engage in some affair which will need fine financiering to carry it through successfully.
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Examples
- It seemed like desecration, but then we had traveled far, and our necessities were urgent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mrs Merdle had shown him that the case of Edmund was urgent, and that infinite advantages might result from his having some good thing directly. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The community was in urgent need of houses. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- But I should take it as a great favour if you would not press it without urgent occasion. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Then he pointed out with considerable vehemence that dance halls were an urgent social necessity. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- At last a mitigation of the patient's most urgent symptoms (acute pain is one of its accompaniments) liberated me, and I set out homeward. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The rest yielded to Miss Ophelia's urgent representations, that their master's safety depended on their stillness and obedience. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She was in fact in urgent and immediate need of money: money to meet the vulgar weekly claims which could neither be deferred nor evaded. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- I must go to England--on the most urgent private affairs, Dobbin said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- There was an urgent want of cheap automobiles to move about goods and workers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The hurried, agitated peal seemed more urgent than if the summons had been steadily given by a practised hand. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But surely in an urgent case like this the Eparch will send you help at once. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Hitherto man has been living in a slum, amidst quarrels, revenges, vanities, shames and taints, hot desires, and urgent appetites. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Shirley, Mr. Moore would be glad to see you in the schoolroom and to hear you read a little French, if you have no more urgent occupation. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Political life, they felt, had ceased to be the urgent and tragic thing it had once been; it had become a polite comedy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- EGYPT, 25 00 B.C. Medicine, which is almost certain to develop in the early history of a people in response to their urgent needs, has been justly called the foster-mother of many sciences. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It seems to have been a fine piece of work, and met with West’s hearty praise, but before it could be submitted the artist was obliged to return home at an urgent summons from his father. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Ah-- she said; and a moment afterward: I'm sorry you didn't come to Granny's--unless the letters were urgent. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Sir John had been very urgent with them all to spend the next day at the park. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- His urgent plea that the liquor question be kept a local issue may be wise. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- A very sudden and urgent summons of duty calls him to a great distance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Say that urgent business calls us home immediately. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- What if I be in necessity, and have urgent motives to acquire something to my family? David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- An urgent case in the Rue St. Honore, he said. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Come along, my dear fellow, for it's an urgent call. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- There is an urgent case waiting for me at the village yonder; I ought to have been there half an hour since--I must attend to it at once. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Reverend Henry Ward Beecher was to have accompanied the expedition, but urgent duties obliged him to give up the idea. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There was an urgent public need for notices, proclamations, and the like. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- While yet trees hid the church, they heard the bell tolling a measured but urgent summons for all to assemble. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No demand of human nature is more urgent or less to be escaped. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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