urgent

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/    美 /ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/|/ˈɝ.d͡ʒənt/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Requiring immediate attention.
    — An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.
  2. Of people: insistent, solicitous.
    — The Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.

词形变化

more urgent comparative most urgent superlative

词汇关系

近义词
acute bad clamant crying dire sore exigent imperious instant rash severe pressing pressive urgent
反义词
evergreen nonurgent unurgent
下位词
importunate
衍生词
nonurgent urgency urgent care urgently
相关词
urge

词源

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.
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