Synonyms for Urgent:

• adj.

  •acute (adjective)
  • severe,
  • more acute.
  •cogent (adjective)
  • valid,
  • puissant,
  • well grounded,
  • pertinent,
  • more telling,
  • most telling,
  • most suasive,
  • wellgrounded,
  • more inducing,
  • most inducing,
  • more convictive,
  • more suasive,
  • forcible,
  • more valid,
  • most justified,
  • more justified,
  • most convictive,
  • potent,
  • re levant,
  • re-levant,
  • inducing.
  •compulsive (adjective)
  • more besetting,
  • most besetting,
  • un controllable,
  • be setting,
  • over-whelming,
  • be-setting,
  • over whelming,
  • un-controllable.
  •critical (adjective)
  • Exceptive,
  • high-priority,
  • risky.
  •crucial (adjective)
  • more climatic,
  • most climatic,
  • most showdown,
  • more showdown,
  • touch go.
  •dangerous (adjective)
  • parlous,
  • Jeopardous,
  • portentous,
  • dangersome,
  • on collision course,
  • shaky.
  •desirous (adjective)
  • desirous,
  • passionate,
  • covetous,
  • acquisitive,
  • grasping,
  • hopeful,
  • needful,
  • itching,
  • fond,
  • hungry,
  • greedy,
  • longing,
  • ardent,
  • amorous,
  • Lusting,
  • yearning,
  • hankering,
  • expectant,
  • Thirsting.
  •desperate (adjective)
  • vehement.
  •earnest (adjective)
  • more diligent,
  • more perseverant,
  • de voted,
  • most fervid,
  • most perseverant,
  • de-voted.
  •effective (adjective)
  • cogent.
  •grave (adjective)
  • feller,
  • fellest,
  • more killing,
  • killing,
  • most killing.
  •hasty (adjective)
  • running,
  • brisk,
  • impatient,
  • flying,
  • dashing,
  • bustling,
  • fleet,
  • hurried,
  • breakneck,
  • quick,
  • breathless,
  • pelting,
  • swift,
  • headlong,
  • abrupt,
  • galloping,
  • speedy,
  • darting,
  • rushing,
  • slambang,
  • chop-chop,
  • rapid,
  • feverish,
  • harefooted.
  •immediate (adjective)
  • hair trigger,
  • most hair trigger,
  • more hair trigger,
  • most hairtrigger,
  • pre-sent,
  • nower,
  • at moment,
  • most hair-trigger,
  • more hair-trigger,
  • nowest,
  • para mount,
  • up to date,
  • pre sent,
  • hair-trigger,
  • more hairtrigger,
  • para-mount.
  •imperative (adjective)
  • in escapable,
  • in-dispensable,
  • in dispensable,
  • in-escapable.
  •important (adjective)
  • newsworthy,
  • front-page,
  • front page,
  • of note,
  • mattering much,
  • of moment,
  • of substance.
  •importunate (adjective)
  • Harassing,
  • overly solicitous.
  •insatiable (adjective)
  • in-satiable,
  • more unquenchable,
  • un-satisfiable,
  • more yearning,
  • un-satisfied,
  • un quenchable,
  • most unsatisfiable,
  • un satisfiable,
  • de siring,
  • in-temperate,
  • de-siring,
  • most insatiate,
  • unsatisfied,
  • more unsatisfiable,
  • most yearning,
  • un appeasable,
  • in satiate,
  • more insatiate,
  • in-satiate,
  • in satiable,
  • un satisfied,
  • more quenchless,
  • un-appeasable,
  • un-quenchable,
  • most unquenchable,
  • in temperate,
  • most quenchless.
  •insistent (adjective)
  • re solute,
  • re sounding,
  • re-sounding,
  • resounding,
  • re-solute,
  • re iterative,
  • re-iterative,
  • un relenting.
  •irresistible (adjective)
  • irresistible.
  •life-and-death (adjective)
  • earth-shaking,
  • life or death,
  • earthshattering,
  • life and death,
  • of vital importance,
  • earthshaking,
  • vitally important.
  •necessary (adjective)
  • more bottom-line,
  • more necessary,
  • more bottomline,
  • bottomline,
  • wanted,
  • pre requisite,
  • most bottom line,
  • most bottomline,
  • more bottom line,
  • re-quired,
  • re quired,
  • most bottom-line,
  • name game.
  •needing immediate attention (adjective)
  • essential,
  • impelling,
  • heavy,
  • demanding,
  • capital,
  • hurry-up,
  • leading,
  • touchy,
  • driving,
  • top-priority,
  • called-for,
  • required,
  • Demanded.
  •serious (adjective)
  • Operose,
  • playing hard ball,
  • sobering,
  • strictly business,
  • no joke,
  • out for blood,
  • unhumorous,
  • unamusing,
  • smoking.
  •sore (adjective)
  • more grieving,
  • most irked,
  • more irked,
  • most grieved,
  • more grieved,
  • more vexed,
  • most vexed,
  • up-set,
  • more stung,
  • most stung,
  • pained,
  • most grieving.
  •strong (adjective)
  • well-established,
  • clear cut,
  • well-founded.
  •violent (adjective)
  • demoniac,
  • head-strong.
  •vital (adjective)
  • most life-or-death,
  • most nitty gritty,
  • most name-of-the-game,
  • under-lined,
  • more name-of-the-game,
  • most meat and potatoes,
  • under lined,
  • most nittygritty,
  • more life or death,
  • most coal-and-ice,
  • most name of the game,
  • most nitty-gritty,
  • most underlined,
  • namest,
  • more coal and ice,
  • coal and ice,
  • more name of the game,
  • more nitty gritty,
  • most coal and ice,
  • most life or death,
  • more underlined,
  • more life-or-death,
  • more coal-and-ice,
  • more meat-and-potatoes,
  • nittygritty,
  • more nitty-gritty,
  • more meat and potatoes,
  • most meat-and-potatoes,
  • more nittygritty.

• adv

  •quickly (adverb)
  • like a shot,
  • in a flash/like a flash/quick as a flash,
  • like mad.

• adv.

  •quickly (adverb)
  • overnight,
  • pronto,
  • apace,
  • smartish.

• n.

  •
  • dire,
  • emergent.
  •
  • continue,
  • Importune.
  •insistent (noun)
  • enthusiastic,
  • diffident,
  • vigorous,
  • commanding,
  • impressive,
  • precipitate,
  • persuasive,
  • zealous,
  • frantic,
  • moving,
  • excited,
  • impetuous,
  • apologetic,
  • impulsive,
  • overpowering,
  • hesitant,
  • masterful,
  • convincing,
  • seductive,
  • solemn,
  • clamorous.
  •urgent (noun)
  • every minute counts,
  • it's now or never,
  • as a matter of urgency/priority,
  • on the front burner.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • envious,
  • longingly,
  • anxious,
  • much.
  •
  • violent.
  •
  • badly.
  •
  • keen.
  •
  • after.
  •absorbing
  • consuming.
  •Other relevant words:
  • dispatch,
  • critic,
  • unfaltering,
  • briefly,
  • teasing,
  • fearfully,
  • cursory,
  • group,
  • urgency,
  • cap in hand,
  • demand,
  • refresh,
  • assert,
  • opening,
  • timidly,
  • anxiously,
  • helter-skelter,
  • extreme,
  • compulsory,
  • irrelevant,
  • expeditious,
  • actuating,
  • motive,
  • expedite,
  • draining,
  • apprehensively,
  • persevering,
  • venter,
  • quickly,
  • constrained,
  • Firer,
  • swiftly,
  • causative,
  • glowing,
  • no laughing matter,
  • fur,
  • rid,
  • Plaguing,
  • frenetic,
  • hasten,
  • rapidly,
  • fiery,
  • easily,
  • Cajoling,
  • promote,
  • instantly,
  • last-minute,
  • causal,
  • taxing,
  • pell-mell,
  • develop,
  • pestering,
  • extortionate,
  • signal,
  • dash,
  • exciting,
  • without choice,
  • usually,
  • awfully,
  • wrongly,
  • emphatic,
  • obligatory,
  • current,
  • renovate,
  • rushed,
  • abolish,
  • must,
  • Choiceless,
  • account,
  • direct,
  • hastily,
  • called for,
  • orifice,
  • aperture,
  • avid,
  • sudden,
  • impassioned,
  • readily,
  • animating,
  • frequency,
  • necessity,
  • very,
  • eliminate,
  • refurbish,
  • constrain,
  • delete,
  • central,
  • inexorable,
  • split second,
  • absorbing,
  • compel,
  • slap-bang,
  • mouth,
  • Dunning,
  • in demand,
  • advertise,
  • suddenly,
  • dignity,
  • coercive,
  • consequential,
  • present,
  • prompt,
  • uneasily,
  • superficial,
  • Rapid-fire,
  • Lickety Split,
  • encourage,
  • assertive,
  • energetic,
  • celerity,
  • exorbitant,
  • active,
  • exceedingly,
  • promptly,
  • requiring speedy action,
  • accelerate,
  • restore,
  • poorly,
  • of consequence,
  • rush,
  • slapdash,
  • high pressure,
  • solicitous,
  • obsessive,
  • speedily,
  • importance,
  • provoking,
  • pressure,
  • existing,
  • human skin,
  • inducive,
  • requisite,
  • cracking,
  • passing,
  • perilous,
  • gravity,
  • loud,
  • passage,
  • insist,
  • expeditiously,
  • uncompromising,
  • actual,
  • warm,
  • in haste,
  • furious,
  • necessitous,
  • hurriedly,
  • motivating,
  • festinate,
  • prefer,
  • motivational,
  • urgently,
  • kick,
  • of the essence,
  • stirring,
  • mandatory,
  • overwhelming,
  • severely,
  • import,
  • revive,
  • stimulating,
  • Begging,
  • hurry,
  • frequently,
  • directive,
  • affirm,
  • snap,
  • haste,
  • help,
  • get,
  • presently,
  • emergency,
  • repeatedly,
  • coerce,
  • needed,
  • gap,
  • greatness,
  • exacting,
  • pass,
  • wheedling,
  • unwavering,
  • in a hurry,
  • renew,
  • hole,
  • pressingly,
  • leather,
  • lack,
  • nagging,
  • on one's knees,
  • incumbent,
  • profound,
  • directly,
  • immediately,
  • crisis,
  • coaxing.

Paraphrases for Urgent:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    exigent.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    crucial, necessary, urgent-action, essential, desperate, Emergencies, much-needed, indispensable, fervent, expedited, peremptory, persistent, serious, exigency, stringent, absolute, overwhelming, ardent, significant, great, important, earnest, high-priority, impending, anxious, current, paramount, crying.
  • Proper noun, singular
    emergency, Emergencies.
  • Noun, plural
    matters, imperatives, treatments, Contingencies, accumulators, responders, Exigencies, Emergencies.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    emergency, exigency.
  • Adverb
    desperately, sorely.
  • Interjection
    important.
  • Verb, past tense
    rushed, said.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    urging, emerging, drawing.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    compelling, acute, time-sensitive, insistent, imminent, urgently-needed, dire, speedy, vital, overriding, topical, urgently, strong, expeditious, faster.
  • Proper noun, singular
    urgency, urgently.
  • Noun, plural
    urgencies, alerts, urgently.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    urgency, urgently, expeditious.
  • Adverb
    urgently.
  • Interjection
    emergency, Emergencies.
  • Verb, past tense
    urgently.
  • Verb, base form
    emergency, urgently.

Antonyms for Urgent:

• adj.

  • needing immediate attention
    secondary, moderate, uncritical, optional, voluntary, unsubstantial, easy, insignificant, unimportant, trivial, light, unnecessary, small, facile, nonessential, minor, inessential, needless.
  • Other antonyms:
    imploring, pleading, beseeching.