D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Urgent

/ẽrj'-ənt/ · Ur·gent · IPA /ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/
01 a. Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.
  1. 1.
    Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.
    “Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary.” Hooker.
    “The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste.” — Ex. xii. 33.