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urgently

adverbcommon in dialogue

With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.

adverb

  1. 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. 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
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).