pressing, urgent
(adjective) compelling immediate action; “too pressing to permit of longer delay”; “the urgent words ‘Hurry! Hurry!’”; “bridges in urgent need of repair”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
urgent (comparative more urgent, superlative most urgent)
Requiring immediate attention.
Synonyms: pressing, needly
• Gunter, gunter, gurnet
Source: Wiktionary
Ur"gent, a. Etym: [L. urgens, p. pr. of urgere: cf. F. urgent. See Urge.]
Definition: Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
14 March 2025
(noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage)
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
