urge

1. 1.

   an instinctive motive

   “profound religious impulses”

   Synonymsimpulse

   Broadermotivation

   Narrowerabienceadiencedeath instinctwanderlust
2. 2.

   a strong restless desire

   “why this urge to travel?”

   Synonymsitch

   Broaderdesire

Other forms of urge

plural

urges·

past tense

urged·

present participle

urging·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about urge

What does urge mean?

urge means "force or impel in an indicated direction". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in urge?

urge has 1 syllable: urge. In IPA it is /ˈɝdʒ/.

What is another word for urge?

Close synonyms include urge on, press, exhort, recommend, advocate. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is urge a common word?

urge is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.