urgent

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɜːdʒənt/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɚdʒənt/

  • Audio (US)

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Adjective

urgent (comparative more urgent, superlative most urgent)

1. Requiring immediate attention.

   An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.

Anagrams

• Gunter, gunter, gurnet

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yʁ.ʒɑ̃/

• audio

  (file)

Adjective

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

1. urgent

Further reading

• “urgent” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Verb

urgent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of urgeō