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urgently

adv

Etymology

From urgent + -ly.

  1. derived from *werǵʰ-✻ — “bind, squeeze”
  2. derived from urgēns
  3. borrowed from urgent — “pressing, impelling”
  4. suffixed as urgently — “urgent + ly”

Definitions

  1. With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.

    • We all urgently need to apply solutions to the problem of pollution.
    • Funds are urgently required if this work is to be completed as planned.
    • And now we're waiting for the very same people to establish GBR, drive through urgently needed fares reform, and come up with imaginative and effective train operating contracts...

  2. Continuously. With insistence.

    • He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at urgently. 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.

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A definitional loop anchored at urgently. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at urgently

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA