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Thesaurus: urgent

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

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  1. a. Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.
  2. adj. compelling immediate action
  3. Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33.
  4. Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; callingfor immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour."Shak.Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker.The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send themout of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33.
  5. j:100 s compelling immediate action