different between urgent vs dangerous

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English dangerous (“difficult, severe, domineering, arrogant, fraught with danger”), daungerous, from Anglo-Norman [Term?], from Old French dangereus (“threatening, difficult”), from dangier. Equivalent to danger +? -ous.

Displaced native Old English fr?cne.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?de?n?(?)??s/, /?de?nd??(?)??s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?de?nd?????s/, /?de?nd????s/, /?de?nd???s/, /?de?n???s/
• Hyphenation: dan?ger?ous

Adjective

dangerous (comparative more dangerous, superlative most dangerous)

1. Full of danger.

   • “[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons?! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”

2. Causing danger; ready to do harm or injury.
   • 1688, Aphra Behn, Oroonoko

     If they incline to think you dangerous / To less than gods

3. (colloquial, dated) In a condition of danger, as from illness; threatened with death.
4. (obsolete) Hard to suit; difficult to please.

   • My wages ben fule straite, and eke full smale; / My lorde is harde to me and daungerous.

5. (obsolete) Reserved; not affable.

   • Of his speech daungerous

Usage notes

The standard comparative and superlative are more dangerous and most dangerous; the forms dangerouser and dangerousest or dangerest exist but are nonstandard.

Synonyms

(full of danger):

• hazardous
• perilous
• risky
• unsafe
• See also Thesaurus:dangerous

Antonyms

• (full of danger): safe, harmless

Derived terms

• dangerous goods

Related terms

• danger
• dangerously

Translations

Anagrams

• nose guard, noseguard

Occitan

Adjective

dangerous m (feminine singular dangerouso, masculine plural dangerous, feminine plural dangerousos)

1. (Mistralian) Alternative form of dangeirós