Exigent

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Requiring immediate action or remedy. See Synonyms at urgent.
  • adj. Requiring much effort or expense; demanding.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Urgent; needing immediate action.
  • adj. Demanding; needing great effort.
  • n. Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency
  • n. The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical.
  • n. Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.
  • n. The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Urgently requiring: exacting.
  • n. An urgent occasion; an occasion that calls for immediate aid or action; an exigency.
  • n. End; extremity.
  • n. In English law, formerly, a writ preliminary to outlawry, which lay where the defendant could not be found, or after a return of non est inventus on former writs.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. requiring precise accuracy
  • adj. demanding attention
  • Equivalent
    demanding    imperative   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pressing    critical    exigency    demanding    exacting    urgent    necessary    distressful   
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