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more urgent

ADJECTIVE

needing immediate attention

Synonyms

STRONGEST

compelling critical crucial demanding essential immediate imperative important indispensable necessary persuasive pressing serious vital weighty

WEAK

burning called-for capital chief clamant clamorous crying demanded driving exigent foremost heavy hurry-up impelling importunate insistent instant leading life and death momentous paramount primary principal required salient top-priority touch and go touchy wanted

Antonyms

STRONGEST

easy facile inessential insignificant light minor needless nonessential optional secondary small trivial uncritical unimportant unnecessary unsubstantial voluntary

WEAK

moderate

Example Sentences

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But two recent developments have made the accuracy of valuations a much more urgent question for the industry.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 20, 2026

It happened that the Epstein files were released just as I set off for Carmarthen, and the work suddenly felt even more urgent.

From BBC • Apr. 12, 2026

Parents can also deposit money from tax refunds or pay bonuses into the 529 — but, once again, not at the expense of these other, more urgent goals below, experts said.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

It is more urgent in Arizona, where the Diamondbacks last won a division championship in 2011, the year before Mark Walter and Guggenheim Baseball bought the Dodgers.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2026

At one point it shook so much that Cora put her arms around Caesar and they stayed like that for a good while, squeezing each other at the more urgent tremors, pressed against the hay.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead