Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

urgently

/ˈɝdʒəntli/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English

Syllables: ur-gent-ly
IPA: /ˈɝdʒəntli/

12

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

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

adv

Continuously. With insistence.

Example Sentences

"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..."
"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.

Inflected Forms

more urgently (comparative) most urgently (superlative)

Synonyms

imperatively pressingly emergently persistently persuasively desperately

Antonyms

apathetically half-heartedly

Questions

How do you pronounce urgently?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈɝdʒəntli/.
What does urgently mean?: With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
Where does urgently come from?: Etymology tree English urgent Middle English -ly English -ly English urgently From urgent + -ly.

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