urgently

Adverb

Meaning

In an urgent manner.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

desperately imperatively pressingly asap now soon directly hard immediately quickly rapidly strongly immediate necessarily instantly
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Antonyms

after later next eventually finally ultimately
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Phrases with the word

urgently needed urgently required

Examples

Today, the world most urgently needs good priests and confessors, because due to their absence, churches are empty, while psychiatric hospitals, prisons, and clinics are full. Paisios of Mount Athos

While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old. Douglas MacArthur

The alarm must be sounded because it is the economic and social system of capitalism and imperialism that prevents the urgently needed full mobilization of the potential economic surplus and the attainment of rates of economic advancement that can be secured with its help. Paul A. Baran

Federal legislation is urgently needed to stop this insanity of wild animals in captivity. Tippi Hedren

I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it. Christopher Isherwood

We did not lack modesty-on the contrary-but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible. Georges Bataille

Close letter words and terms

urgent situation urgent total urgentless urgently needed urgently required urgentness