different between urgent vs hazardous
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
urgent From the web:
- what urgent care is open
- what urgent care
- what urgent care takes medicaid
- what urgent care is open near me
- what urgent care accepts medical
- what urgent care accepts medicaid
- what urgent care takes medical
- what urgent care is open today
hazardous
English
Etymology
From Middle French hasardeux.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?hæz??d?s/
Adjective
hazardous (comparative more hazardous, superlative most hazardous)
- Risky, dangerous, with the nature of a hazard.
- Of or involving chance.
Derived terms
- hazardously
- ultrahazardous
Translations
Trivia
One of four common words ending in -dous, which are hazardous, horrendous, stupendous, and tremendous.
References
hazardous From the web:
- what hazardous materials are in solar panels
- what hazardous material contains a pathogen
- what hazardous means
- what hazardous materials require placarding
- what hazardous waste can be recycled
- what hazardous waste
- what hazardous materials have to be dealt
- what hazardous materials are in computers
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