Meanings
comparative more urgently · superlative most urgently
- With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
We all urgently need to apply solutions to the problem of pollution.
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Funds are urgently required if this work is to be completed as planned.
And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...
2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3Synonyms: imperatively, pressingly, emergently
- Continuously. With insistence.
He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.
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For example, the pain-sufferer will be urgently wishing this section of his life were over and done with in a way quite lacking in the pain-imitator.
1980, Keith Campbell, Body and Mind, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 73
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbWith great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
More synonyms by meaning
adverbwith great urgency
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Bulgarian спе́шно, сро́чно
- спе́шно (spéšno)with a sense of urgency
- сро́чно (sróčno)with a sense of urgency
Catalan urgentment
- urgentmentwith a sense of urgency
Chinese Mandarin 緊急地 /紧急地
- 緊急地 /紧急地 (jǐnjí de)with a sense of urgency
Czech naléhavě
- naléhavěwith a sense of urgency
Esperanto urĝe
- urĝewith a sense of urgency
Finnish kiireellisesti, kiireesti
- kiireellisestiwith a sense of urgency
- kiireestiwith a sense of urgency
French urgemment, d'urgence
- urgemmentwith a sense of urgency
- d'urgencewith a sense of urgency
German dringend
- dringendwith a sense of urgency
Greek επειγόντως
- επειγόντως (epeigóntos)with a sense of urgency
Hungarian sürgősen
- sürgősenwith a sense of urgency
Italian urgentemente
- urgentementewith a sense of urgency
Japanese 緊急に
- 緊急に (kinkyū ni)with a sense of urgency
Korean 긴급하게
- 긴급하게 (gin'geuphage)with a sense of urgency
Polish pilnie
- pilniewith a sense of urgency
Portuguese urgentemente
- urgentementewith a sense of urgency
Russian сро́чно, э́кстренно
- сро́чно (sróčno)with a sense of urgency
- э́кстренно (ékstrenno)with a sense of urgency
- спе́шно (spéšno)with a sense of urgency
Slovak naliehavo, súrne
- naliehavowith a sense of urgency
- súrnewith a sense of urgency
Spanish urgentemente, de ahora para ahorita
- urgentementewith a sense of urgency
- de ahora para ahoritawith a sense of urgency
- por luegowith a sense of urgency
Ukrainian терміно́во, пи́льно
- терміно́во (terminóvo)with a sense of urgency
- пи́льно (pýlʹno)with a sense of urgency
- спі́шно (spíšno)with a sense of urgency
Cite this entry
urgently. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/urgently
“urgently.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/urgently. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “urgently,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/urgently.
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