exigent

/'eksidʤənt/

Thân thiện

The editor made exigent corrections to the manuscript.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Requiring immediate action or attention; urgent: Describes a situation, need, or demand that is pressing and cannot be delayed.
   • Making excessive or demanding requirements; exacting: Describes a person, standard, or condition that is very demanding and requires precise accuracy or great effort.

Usage Examples

• Adjective (Urgent):
  • The exigent circumstances forced them to make a quick decision.
  • Providing clean water is an exigent need in the disaster zone.
• Adjective (Demanding):
  • The exigent professor expected perfection from every student.
  • The job's exigent standards require years of training.

Advanced Usage

• "exigent of": This formal phrase means "demanding of" or "requiring."
  • The role is exigent of both time and dedication.
• Used in formal or literary contexts to describe critical needs or highly demanding criteria.

Variants and Related Words

• Exigence / Exigency (noun): An urgent need or demand; a pressing situation.
  • The exigencies of war demanded rapid innovation.
• Exigently (adverb): In an urgent or demanding manner.
  • The report was exigently requested by the board.

Synonyms

• Urgent: Requiring immediate action.
• Pressing: Needing quick attention.
• Critical: Of the greatest importance; crucial.
• Exacting: Making great demands on one's skill, attention, or resources.
• Stringent: Strict, precise, and demanding.

Antonyms

• Non-urgent: Not requiring immediate action.
• Undemanding: Requiring little effort or care.
• Lenient: More permissive or tolerant; not strict.

Related Phrases

• Exigent circumstances: A legal and formal term for a situation that demands immediate action to prevent imminent danger, often used to justify actions without prior authorization (e.g., police entering a building without a warrant).
  • The firefighters acted due to exigent circumstances to save lives.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. requiring precise accuracy
   • an exacting job
   • became more exigent over his pronunciation
2. demanding attention
   • clamant needs
   • a crying need
   • regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous- H.L.Mencken
   • insistent hunger
   • an instant need

Từ đồng nghĩa

• exacting
• clamant
• crying
• insistent
• instant