urgent

Betekenis (Engels)

1. Requiring immediate attention.
2. Of people: insistent, solicitous.

Sinonieme

pressing

compelling

imperative

hasty

emergency

importunate

immediate

exigent

necessary

vital

imminent

instant

emergent

acute

impending

earnest

indispensable

critical

‼️

hurried

prompt

quick

serious

crucial

important

crying

severe

anxious

essential

crisis

insistent

needful

rushing

special

speedy

strenuous

strict

stringent

strong

sudden

suddenly

thirst

thirsty

tight

tremendous

trouble

uneasy

urgency

in tears

very important

ending quickly

Vertalings

urgent

‼️

dringend

urgente

‼️

urgente

‼️

dringend

‼️

pressant

spoedeisend

‼️

urgente

‼️

dringlich

‼️

مستعجل

apremiante

‼️

Dringlichkeit

urgent

‼️

επείγων

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/

Etimologie (Engels)

Verwante met Duits: würgen

Verwante met Litaus: verzti

Verwante met Russies: -

Verwante met Pools: otwierać

Verwante met Engels: worry

In summary

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.