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urgent
adjective as in needing immediate attention
Strongest matches
compelling, critical, crucial, demanding, essential, immediate, imperative, important, indispensable, necessary, persuasive, pressing, serious, vital, weighty
Weak matches
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
Example Sentences
This incorrect information is shaping long-term health policy in the U.S. – which makes it urgent to correct the record.
The Liberal Democrat authority's chief executive will be asked to chair a recovery board to try and find urgent savings, if the council is to avoid effectively declaring itself bankrupt.
And now more than ever, "domestic competitiveness needs urgent strengthening through technology and quality upgradation funds" for exporters, he says.
A statement on its website states it is showing solidarity while "the Israeli government is preventing urgent humanitarian assistance from entering Gaza".
These texts usually come with a link you are told to click on to pay the fine and "use urgent and threatening language to make you panic", Stapleton says.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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