All urgent synonyms

adj urgent

• necessary — being essential, indispensable, or requisite: a necessary part of the motor.
• crucial — If you describe something as crucial, you mean it is extremely important.
• indispensable — absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite: an indispensable member of the staff.
• persuasive — able, fitted, or intended to persuade: a very persuasive argument.
• pressing — urgent; demanding immediate attention: a pressing need.
• vital — of or relating to life: vital processes.
• immediate — occurring or accomplished without delay; instant: an immediate reply.
• compelling — A compelling argument or reason is one that convinces you that something is true or that something should be done.
• important — of much or great significance or consequence: an important event in world history.
• imperative — imperative language
• critical — If a person is critical or in a critical condition in hospital, they are seriously ill.
• demanding — A demanding job or task requires a lot of your time, energy, or attention.
• serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
• weighty — having considerable weight; heavy; ponderous: a weighty bundle.
• burning — You use burning to describe something that is extremely hot.
• capital — Capital is a large sum of money which you use to start a business, or which you invest in order to make more money.
• chief — The chief of an organization is the person who is in charge of it.
• clamant — noisy
• clamorous — If you describe people or their voices as clamorous, you mean they are talking loudly or shouting.
• crying — notorious; lamentable (esp in the phrase crying shame)
• driving — noting or pertaining to a part of a machine or vehicle used for its propulsion.
• foremost — Most prominent in rank, importance, or position.
• heavy — of great weight; hard to lift or carry: a heavy load.
• importunate — urgent or persistent in solicitation, sometimes annoyingly so.
• insistent — earnest or emphatic in dwelling upon, maintaining, or demanding something; persistent; pertinacious.
• instant — an infinitesimal or very short space of time; a moment: They arrived not an instant too soon.
• leading — made of or containing lead: a lead pipe; a lead compound.
• momentous — of great or far-reaching importance or consequence: a momentous day.
• paramount — chief in importance or impact; supreme; preeminent: a point of paramount significance.
• primary — first or highest in rank or importance; chief; principal: his primary goals in life.
• principal — first or highest in rank, importance, value, etc.; chief; foremost.
• required — to have need of; need: He requires medical care.
• salient — prominent or conspicuous: salient traits.
• touchy — apt to take offense on slight provocation; irritable: He is very touchy when he's sick.
• wanted — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
• demanded — to ask for with proper authority; claim as a right: He demanded payment of the debt.
• hurry-up — characterized by speed or the need for speed; quick: a hurry-up meal; a hurry-up phone call.
• impelling — to drive or urge forward; press on; incite or constrain to action.
• life and death — ending with the death or possible death of one of the participants; crucially important: The cobra was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with the mongoose.