urgently
adverbcommon in dialogue
With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
adverb
- 1
With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
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.
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...
- 2
Continuously. With insistence.
He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.
For example, the pain-sufferer will be urgently wishing this section of his life were over and done with in a way quite lacking in the pain-imitator.
Etymology
Etymology tree English urgent Middle English -ly English -ly English urgently From urgent + -ly.
Forms
- comparative
- more urgently
- superlative
- most urgently
urgently · With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
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