adjective
- compelling or requiring immediate action or attention; imperative; pressing: an urgent matter.
- insistent or earnest in solicitation; importunate, as a person: an urgent pleader.
- expressed with insistence, as requests or appeals: an urgent tone of voice.
adjective
- requiring or compelling speedy action or attentionthe matter is urgent; an urgent message
- earnest and persistent
adj.mid-15c., from Middle French urgent “pressing, impelling” (14c.), from Latin urgentem (nominative urgens), present participle of urgere “to press hard, urge” (see urge (v.)). Related: Urgently.