urgent

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

English

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Middle French urgent (pressing, impelling), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (to press), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (bind, squeeze). Related to German würgen (to strangle), Lithuanian ver̃žti (to string, tighten, constrict), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, to open, literally to untie), Polish otwierać (to open)) and English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

urgent (comparative more urgent, superlative most urgent)

  1. Requiring immediate attention.
    Synonyms: pressing, needly
    An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
  2. Of people: insistent, solicitous.

Usage notes

[edit]

The primary meaning of urgent is as a description of a pressing need. Especially in journalistic contexts, it is sometimes used by transference to describe the thing needed, or to mean "happening very soon", which some deem erroneous.

Derived terms

[edit]
[edit]

Translations

[edit]

Anagrams

[edit]

Catalan

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Latin urgentem.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

urgent m or f (masculine and feminine plural urgents)

  1. urgent

Derived terms

[edit]
[edit]

Further reading

[edit]

French

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Late Latin urgentem, present participle of urgeō.

Pronunciation

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

urgent (feminine urgente, masculine plural urgents, feminine plural urgentes)

  1. urgent

Derived terms

[edit]
[edit]

See also

[edit]

Further reading

[edit]

Latin

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Verb

[edit]

urgent

  1. third-person plural present active indicative of urgeō

Piedmontese

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]

Pronunciation

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

urgent

  1. urgent

Romanian

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from French urgent, from Latin urgens.

Adjective

[edit]

urgent m or n (feminine singular urgentă, masculine plural urgenți, feminine and neuter plural urgente)

  1. urgent

Declension

[edit]