urgently
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adverb[edit]
urgently (comparative more urgently, superlative most urgently)
- 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.
- 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
- 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...
- Continuously. With insistence.
- He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.
Synonyms[edit]
- (great haste): imperatively, pressingly, emergently
- (continuously): persistently, persuasively
Antonyms[edit]
Translations[edit]
with a sense of urgency
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