urgently

1. 1.

   with great urgency

   “health care reform is needed urgently”

   “the soil desperately needed potash”

   Synonymsdesperately

Questions about urgently

What does urgently mean?

urgently means "with great urgency".

How many syllables are in urgently?

urgently has 3 syllables: ur-gent-ly. The stress falls on "ur". In IPA it is /ˈɝdʒəntli/.

What is another word for urgently?

Close synonyms include desperately. 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 urgently a common word?

urgently is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.