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