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URGENTLY
urgently, desperately
(adverb) with great urgency; “health care reform is needed urgently”; “the soil desperately needed potash”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adverb
urgently (comparative more urgently, superlative most urgently)
With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
Continuously. With insistence.
Synonyms
• (great haste): imperatively, pressingly
• (continuously): persistently, persuasively
Antonyms
• apathetically
• half-heartedly
Source: Wiktionary
Ur"gent*ly, adv.
Definition: In an urgent manner.
URGENT
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
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