Synonyms:
pressing, urgent
Meaning: compelling immediate action; "too pressing to permit of longer delay"; "the urgent words `Hurry! Hurry!'"; "bridges in urgent need of repair"
Usage examples
Something full of urgent haste
Appealing to the urgent temper of youth
The urgent symptoms are those of suffocation.
We made one more effort to be let go, urgent, but not imploring.
The inexorable pendulum had swung the counter direction, and there was upon me an urgent need.
You know also that there are dreams which can be recognized as the satisfaction of justified wishes and urgent bodily needs.
Let them knock and clamour; he had more urgent work in hand, and knew too well the penalty were he stupid enough to unbolt to them.
But this time he had specially urgent business, and he foresaw how difficult it would be to approach the subject, yet he was in great haste.
For the general in the war, or a common soldier, or a citizen of one of the contending nations, the stimulus to thinking is direct and urgent.
The Congregation of the Mission Priests was to inaugurate another good work for which there was an urgent necessity in the world of Vincent's day.