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. - 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 - BINDING POST
A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections. - 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.