What is another word for exigent?
494 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɛɡzˈa͡ɪd͡ʒənt], [ ɛɡzˈaɪdʒənt], [ ɛ_ɡ_z_ˈaɪ_dʒ_ə_n_t]
Exigent is a word that means urgent, pressing or demanding. There are a number of other words that can be used as synonyms for it. Some of these include critical, pressing, imperative, compelling, urgent, significant, and crucial. Each of these words has slightly different connotations and can be used in slightly different contexts. For example, critical may be used to indicate that something is of utmost importance, while compelling may suggest that something is so convincing that it must be acted upon. Regardless of the exact word used, people often use synonyms of exigent when they need to convey a sense of urgency or importance.
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Similar words for exigent:
- all (adjective)
- burdensome (adjective)
- burning (adjective)
- demanding (adjective)
- difficult, taxing (adjective)
- exacting (adjective)
- grave (adjective)
- imperative (adjective)
- important (adjective)
- importunate (adjective)
- insatiable (adjective)
- insistent (adjective)
- instant (adjective)
- necessary (adjective)
- onerous (adjective)
- oppressive (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- pressing (adjective)
- taxing (adjective)
- tough (adjective)
- trying (adjective)
- urgent (adjective)
- other relevant words (noun)
- urgent (noun)
- other synonyms
- hypercritical
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Exigent:
adj.
• all (adjective) • burdensome (adjective)- more crushing,
- super incumbent,
- more superincumbent,
- most carking,
- most crushing,
- most superincumbent,
- more difficult,
- super-incumbent,
- more carking.
- stern,
- hyper-critical,
- un-sparing,
- nit picking,
- ex-acting,
- hyper critical,
- most nit-picking,
- most nit picking,
- by book,
- un sparing,
- more nit picking,
- ex acting,
- more nit-picking,
- unsparing.
- in satiable,
- in temperate,
- de-siring,
- most unsatisfiable,
- more yearning,
- un-appeasable,
- most yearning,
- un satisfiable,
- un-satisfiable,
- most insatiate,
- in satiate,
- un satisfied,
- most unquenchable,
- un quenchable,
- in-satiate,
- in-temperate,
- un-satisfied,
- most quenchless,
- un-quenchable,
- more unsatisfiable,
- more unquenchable,
- more insatiate,
- more quenchless,
- de siring,
- in-satiable,
- unsatisfied,
- un appeasable.
- resounding,
- re iterative,
- more perseverant,
- most perseverant,
- re-sounding,
- un relenting,
- re sounding,
- re solute,
- re-solute,
- re-iterative.
- more on-the-spot,
- more split-second,
- pre sent,
- present day,
- more on the spot,
- more split second,
- more splitsecond,
- most on-the-spot,
- most split-second,
- presentday,
- pre-sent,
- most split second,
- most splitsecond,
- splitsecond,
- instantaneous,
- most on the spot.
- more all-important,
- all important,
- re quired,
- most bottom-line,
- more all important,
- more bottom line,
- allimportant,
- bottomline,
- needful,
- most bottom line,
- more necessary,
- more bottomline,
- re-quired,
- most allimportant,
- un-avoidable,
- name game,
- un avoidable,
- more allimportant,
- most bottomline,
- most all-important,
- wanted,
- most all important,
- more bottom-line,
- pre requisite.
- in tolerable,
- most embittering,
- over-taxing,
- over taxing,
- more overtaxing,
- more plodding,
- over powering,
- most plodding,
- more embittering,
- over-powering,
- most headache,
- more headache,
- most overtaxing,
- in-tolerable.
- heavyhanded,
- de-pressing,
- un justest,
- most ironhanded,
- heavy handed,
- in-human,
- dis heartening,
- dis-heartening,
- Over-bearing,
- most disheartening,
- more disheartening,
- more depressive,
- un-just,
- most depressive,
- un-justest,
- un just,
- un-juster,
- in human,
- over bearing,
- most confining,
- de pressing,
- more ironhanded,
- more confining,
- un juster.
- depressive,
- high-priority,
- hurry-up,
- touch and go,
- by the book,
- ironhanded,
- oppressive,
- insatiate,
- on the spot,
- head ache,
- on-the-spot,
- dire,
- all-important,
- rough going,
- urgent,
- quenchless,
- onerous,
- taxing,
- pressing,
- life and death,
- no turning back,
- important,
- insistent,
- superincumbent,
- insatiable,
- imperative,
- bottom-line,
- trying,
- demanding,
- incumbent on,
- weighty,
- overtaxing,
- necessary,
- stressful,
- Carking,
- backbreaker,
- split-second,
- exacting,
- name of game,
- nit-picking,
- burdensome,
- grave,
- top-priority,
- Perseverant,
- heat-on,
- unsatisfiable,
- pre-requisite,
- tough,
- unquenchable,
- of great consequence.
- more heat-on,
- heaton,
- most forcing,
- more constraining,
- most claiming,
- highpriority,
- re-quiring,
- hurryup,
- most heat-on,
- more forcing,
- more high priority,
- more heaton,
- most high-priority,
- most highpriority,
- more highpriority,
- more claiming,
- hurry up,
- high priority,
- most constraining,
- more heat on,
- more hurryup,
- most high priority,
- re quiring,
- heat on,
- most hurry-up,
- more hurry up,
- most heat on,
- most heaton,
- most hurryup,
- more hurry-up,
- most hurry up,
- more high-priority.
- most enervating,
- most stressful,
- more sapping,
- more stressful,
- more enervating,
- Sapping,
- most sapping.
- in-tractable,
- no piece of cake,
- up-hill,
- up hill,
- un-yielding,
- un yielding,
- in tractable,
- no piece cake.
- ex-asperating,
- most vexing,
- ex asperating,
- up-setting,
- pro-vocative,
- more vexing,
- most exasperating,
- up setting,
- most aggravating,
- more exasperating,
- more aggravating,
- pro vocative.
- more demanded,
- toppriority,
- touch go,
- most toppriority,
- more calledfor,
- most called-for,
- most demanded,
- life death,
- most top-priority,
- most impelling,
- most calledfor,
- calledfor,
- most called for,
- most top priority,
- more toppriority,
- top priority,
- more top-priority,
- more impelling,
- more called-for,
- more top priority,
- more called for.
n.
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•
- difficult,
- severe,
- rough,
- formidable,
- hard.
Other synonyms:
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•
- heavy.
- acquisitive,
- acute,
- despotic,
- conjuncture,
- malcontent,
- crucial,
- dictatorial,
- decisive,
- hard-nosed,
- pressing necessity,
- extortionate,
- punctual,
- serious,
- meticulous,
- mandatory,
- haughty,
- strait-laced,
- indispensable,
- religious,
- correct,
- split second,
- gross,
- loaded,
- flinty,
- discontented,
- merciless,
- exact,
- predicament,
- fussy,
- vociferous,
- Precisian,
- hardship,
- Hard-headed,
- grasping,
- menacing,
- high pressure,
- imperious,
- of the essence,
- turning point,
- detailed,
- minute,
- unyielding,
- strait,
- dissentient,
- attentive,
- crossroad,
- inhuman,
- climacteric,
- brutal,
- pregnant,
- life-and-death,
- dissident,
- unfeeling,
- pertinacious,
- inquisitorial,
- compulsory,
- needed,
- obligatory,
- critic,
- rush,
- uppermost,
- exigency,
- arrogant,
- direct,
- painstaking,
- relentless,
- pivotal,
- subtle,
- essential,
- emergency,
- punctilious,
- precise,
- particular,
- authoritarian,
- obdurate,
- positive,
- iron-handed,
- constraining,
- danger,
- searching,
- contingency,
- savage,
- pinch,
- coercive,
- absorbing,
- inclement,
- difficulty,
- pressure,
- zero hour,
- urgency,
- extremity,
- troublesome,
- cruel,
- peremptory,
- ungratified,
- hypercritical,
- required,
- exquisite,
- delicate,
- finicky,
- absolute,
- Hard-shell,
- rigid,
- haste,
- Stony-hearted,
- crisis,
- unbending,
- clamorous,
- stony,
- Finicking,
- Scrutinizing,
- arbitrary,
- critical,
- withering,
- refined,
- earnest,
- quandary,
- unsympathetic,
- requisite,
- loud,
- repetitive,
- tyrannical,
- inexorable,
- fine,
- accurate,
- autocratic,
- without choice,
- Malcontented,
- spartan,
- Hard-hearted,
- finical,
- threatening,
- grinding,
- narrow,
- dissatisfied,
- persistent,
- astringent,
- necessity,
- pitiless,
- immediate,
- Choiceless,
- rugged,
- nice,
- conscientious,
- ruthless,
- blatant,
- scrupulous,
- fastidious,
- life-or-death,
- Demanded,
- beastly,
- grim,
- exorbitant,
- uncompromising,
- flagrant,
- strident,
- juncture,
- vital,
- punitive,
- austere,
- pass,
- disaster,
- compelling,
- necessitous,
- decisive moment,
- close,
- inflexible,
- draining,
- consequence,
- circumstance,
- egregious,
- galling,
- dour,
- mean,
- malevolent,
- charged.
How to use "Exigent" in context?
Exigent means "of immediate necessity". In law, exigent circumstances are those conditions that must exist before an enforcement action, such as a search warrant, can be taken. They are often used in cases in which a search or seizure must be conducted as soon as possible in order to preclude the destruction of evidence.
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