different between eager vs urgent

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?i??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i???/
• Rhymes: -i???(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English egre, eger, from Old French egre (French aigre), from Latin acer (“sharp, keen”); see acid, acerb, etc. Compare vinegar, alegar.

Alternative forms

• aigre (obsolete)
• eagre (obsolete)

Adjective

eager (comparative more eager, superlative most eager)

1. Desirous; keen to do or obtain something.
   • 1887, John Keble, s:The Christian Year

     When to her eager lips is brought / Her infant's thrilling kiss.

   • a crowd of eager and curious schoolboys
2. (computing theory) Not employing lazy evaluation; calculating results immediately, rather than deferring calculation until they are required.

   an eager algorithm

3. (dated) Brittle; inflexible; not ductile.

   • gold itself will be sometimes so eager, (as artists call it), that it will as little endure the hammer as glass itself

4. (obsolete) Sharp; sour; acid.
5. (obsolete) Sharp; keen; bitter; severe.

Synonyms

• keen
• raring
• fain (archaic)

Derived terms

• eager beaver
• eagerly
• eagerness

Translations

Etymology 2

See eagre.

Noun

eager (plural eagers)

1. Alternative form of eagre (tidal bore).

Further reading

• eager in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• eager in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• eager at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• aeger, agree, eagre, geare, æger

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urg?ns, from urg?re (“to press”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, General Australian) IPA^(key): /???d??nt/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /??d??nt/
• Hyphenation: ur?gent

Adjective

urgent (comparative more urgent, superlative most urgent)

1. Requiring immediate attention.

   Synonyms: pressing, needly

Usage notes

The primary meaning of urgent is as a description of a pressing need. Especially in journalistic contexts, it is sometimes used by transference to describe the thing needed, or to mean "happening very soon", which some deem erroneous.

Derived terms

Related terms

• urge

Translations

Anagrams

• Gunter, gunter, gurnet

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin urgens.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /u???ent/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ur??en/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /u??d??ent/

Adjective

urgent (masculine and feminine plural urgents)

1. urgent

Derived terms

• urgentment

Related terms

• urgència
• urgir

Further reading

• “urgent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “urgent” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “urgent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “urgent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin urgens, present participle of urge?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /y?.???/

Adjective

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

1. urgent

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

• pressé

Further reading

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

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?ur.?ent/, [??r??n?t?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?ur.d??ent/, [?urd???n?t?]

Verb

urgent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of urge?

Piedmontese

Alternative forms

• ürgent

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /yr?d????t/

Adjective

urgent

1. urgent

Romanian

Etymology

From French urgent, from Latin urgens.

Adjective

urgent m or n (feminine singular urgent?, masculine plural urgen?i, feminine and neuter plural urgente)

1. urgent

Declension