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harrowing
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?hæ???i?/
Verb
harrowing
- present participle of harrow
Adjective
harrowing (comparative more harrowing, superlative most harrowing)
- Causing pain or distress.
- 2006, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Killer Smile, Dark Horse Books, cover text
- Harrowing journeys down the dark roads of anger, violence, and madness
- 2006, Paul Chadwick, Concrete: Killer Smile, Dark Horse Books, cover text
Translations
Noun
harrowing (plural harrowings)
- The process of breaking up earth with a harrow.
- The field received two harrowings.
- Suffering, torment.
- Christ's triumphal descent into Hell.
Translations
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urgent
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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- third-person plural present active indicative of urge?
Piedmontese
Alternative forms
- ürgent
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /yr?d????t/
Adjective
urgent
- 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)
- urgent
Declension
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