urgent | Definition of urgent

Synonyms and Antonyms of urgent

needing immediate attention

I will need to put off everything but the most urgent issues

Synonyms of urgent

acute, burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, exigent, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing

Words Related to urgent

demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overriding

crucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death (also life-or-death), serious, severe, vital

dangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstable

Near Antonyms of urgent

incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportant

nonthreatening, safe, stable

Antonyms of urgent

noncritical, nonurgent