Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Urgent / Pressing: Describes a situation, task, or need that requires immediate action or attention due to time constraints or importance.
   • Hasty / Rushed: Describes an action performed with excessive speed, often due to urgency, sometimes implying a lack of thoroughness.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Công việc này rất gấp gáp. (This task is very urgent.)
  • Chúng tôi phải rời đi một cách gấp gáp. (We had to leave in a rushed manner.)
  • Họ có một nhu cầu gấp gáp về tài chính. (They have a pressing financial need.)

Advanced Usage

• Used to describe the nature of time or a period.
  • Trong những ngày gấp gáp cuối cùng của dự án... (In the frantic final days of the project...)

Variants and Related Words

• Gấp (adj): Urgent, immediate. Often stronger and more concise than "gấp gáp".
  • Việc gấp! (It's urgent!)
• Khẩn cấp (adj): Emergency, critical. Indicates a higher level of urgency, often for serious situations.
  • Tình huống khẩn cấp. (An emergency situation.)

Synonyms

• Urgent: Requiring immediate action.
• Pressing: Of vital importance; urgent.
• Hasty: Done with excessive speed or urgency.

Related Idioms

• Làm việc gấp gáp: To work in a hurried/rushed fashion.
  • Đừng làm việc gấp gáp kẻo mắc sai lầm. (Don't work in such a rushed way or you'll make mistakes.)
• Đường gấp khúc: This is a different word ("gấp" meaning ); it means , highlighting the homonym.

1. Pressing, urgent (nói khái quát)