urgent UK /ˈɜː.d͡ʒənt/US /ˈɝ.d͡ʒənt/ adjective2 •needing action or attention now, before other thingsAn urgent appeal was sent out for assistance. •Of people: insistent, solicitous.The Egyptians were vrgent vpon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. — 1611 formsmore urgent · most urgent