urgently

Word parts

urgent + -ly

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: ur‧gent‧ly

Adverb

Positive urgently

Comparative more urgently

Superlative most urgently

1. If someone is doing something urgently, they are doing it very fast; they have a great sense of urgency.
2. If someone does something urgently, it is done with insistance or continuously.

Synonyms

• (very fast): pressingly, imperatively
• (insistant): persistantly

Antonyms

• apothetically