Word Meanings - URGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: URGENT

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of URGENT)

• Imperative
• Urgent
• irresistible
• dictatorial
• inexorable
• peremptorily
• compulsory
• obligatory
• Incumbent
• Pressing
• binding
• coercive
• indispensable
• urgent
• devolvent
• Intent \adj Eager
• fixed
• Vehement
• Violent
• impetuous
• ardent
• burning
• fervent
• raging
• furious
• passionate
• fervid
• forcible
• eager

Related words: (words related to URGENT)

• RAGULED; RAGGULED
  Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
• RAGE
  1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief.
• INDISPENSABLENESS
  The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• ARDENT
  1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
• BURN
  To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
• RAGLAN
  A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
• VEHEMENTLY
  In a vehement manner.
• BIND
  bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh to bind, cf. Gr. cable, and L. 1. To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• RAGAMUFFIN
  The long-tailed titmouse. (more info) 1. A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden. 2. A person who wears ragged clothing.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• RAGHUVANSA
  A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.
• FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
• PRESSIROSTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
• RAGIOUS
  Raging; furious; rageful. -- Ra"gious*ness, n.
• PRESSIVE
  Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
• BINDING POST
  A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.
• FIXTURE
  Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
• BURNIEBEE
  The ladybird.
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• TETRAGYNIA
  A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.
• PHRAGMOCONE
  The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
• MOORAGE
  A place for mooring.
• OUTRAGEOUS
  Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• REFIX
  To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
• CORAL-RAG
  See CORALLIAN
• SUBINDIVIDUAL
  A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• VORAGINOUS
  Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. Mallet.
• AFFIX
  figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
• ACCOURAGE
  To encourage.
• SUNBURN
  To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.