ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Urgently

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adverb

Quick meaning: Urgently is an adverb meaning With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.

Meaning

With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.

More Meanings

  1. Continuously. With insistence.

Example Sentences

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.
He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.
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.

Synonyms for urgently

Depending on context, synonyms include imperatively, pressingly, emergently, persistently, persuasively, desperately.

Antonyms for urgently

Common opposites include apathetically, half-heartedly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include desperately, urgency, exigent, emergency, exigency, pressingly.

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