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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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- what urgent care
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- what urgent care accepts medical
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needful
English
Alternative forms
- nedefull, needfull
Etymology
From Middle English needeful, nedeful, from Old English n?odful (“necessary; earnest; zealous”). Equivalent to need +? -ful. Cognate with Dutch noodvol, German notvoll.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ni?df?l/
- Hyphenation: need?ful
Adjective
needful (comparative more needful, superlative most needful)
- Needed; necessary; mandatory; requisite; indispensible.
- Antonym: needless
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 5
- So I went to keep house with him at the Why Not? and my aunt sent down my bag of clothes, and would have made over to Elzevir the pittance that my father left for my keep, but he said it was not needful, and he would have none of it.
- (archaic) Needy; in need.
- 1860, Union Society of Savannah, Minutes of the Union Society (page 114)
- […] where his active benevolence was ever found in cheerful co-operation for the cause of the humble & needful orphan […]
- 1860, Union Society of Savannah, Minutes of the Union Society (page 114)
Derived terms
- needfully
- needfulness
Noun
needful (plural needfuls)
- (slang) Ready money; wherewithal.
- (India, chiefly archaic in other dialects) Anything necessary or requisite.
Usage notes
Commonly found in phrases such as "kindly do the needful", which occurs commonly in Indian English but is held as archaic in other dialects. Global interactions between English speakers have to some extent led to these phrases being seen as stereotypical of Indian English and parodied by speakers of other dialects.
Derived terms
- do the needful
Anagrams
- Neufeld
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