urgent
adjEtymology
Borrowed from Middle French urgent (“pressing, impelling”), from Latin urgēns, from urgēre (“to press”), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“bind, squeeze”). Equivalent to urge + -ent. Related to German würgen (“to strangle”), Lithuanian ver̃žti (“to string, tighten, constrict”), Russian (poetic) отверза́ть (otverzátʹ, “to open”, literally “to untie”), Polish otwierać (“to open”)) and English worry, wring, wreak, wreck.
- derived from urgēns
Definitions
Requiring immediate attention.
- An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
Of people
Of people: insistent, solicitous.
- The Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.
- My kind friends here are most affectionately urgent with me to prolong my stay […].
The neighborhood
- synonymacute
- synonymbad
- synonymclamant
- synonymcrying
- synonymdire
- synonymsore
- synonymexigent
- synonymimperious
- synonyminstant
- synonymrash
- synonymsevere
- synonympressing
- antonymevergreen
- antonymnonurgent
- antonymunurgent
- neighborurge
- neighborimportunate
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at urgent. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at urgent. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
6 hops · closes at urgent
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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