Synonyms & related words for urgent

Find synonyms, related words, and the definition of urgent — including pressing, exigent, clamant, emergency, immediate, insistent. Dendril is a free visual thesaurus that shows them on an interactive map where stronger matches sit closer to the center — no signup, no ads.

Words related to urgent

Explore words related to urgent — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include urgently, urgency, pressingly, exigency, exigence, imperatively, importunity, nonemergency. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Synonyms for urgent

Common synonyms for urgent include pressing, exigent, clamant, emergency, immediate, insistent, imperative, demanding — words that share a close meaning. Hover or tap any word on the map for its definition and part of speech.

Where does urgent come from?

The word urgent breaks down into one root of Latin origin: the root urg-, from Latin urgeo (“press, drive”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.