Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Urgent; pressing: Describes a situation, task, or need that requires immediate action or attention due to its critical importance. It conveys a sense of serious priority and cannot be delayed.
   • Emergency: Used to characterize a state of serious danger or crisis that demands swift and decisive measures.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • Đây là một tình huống khẩn cấp. (This is an urgent situation.)
  • Bệnh nhân cần được chuyển đến bệnh viện khẩn cấp. (The patient needs to be transferred to the hospital urgently.)
  • Chính phủ đã ban bố tình trạng khẩn cấp. (The government has declared a state of emergency.)

Advanced Usage

• "khẩn cấp" as an adverbial modifier: Often follows verbs to mean "urgently" or "in an emergency manner."
  • Cứu hộ đã được triển khai khẩn cấp. (Rescue efforts were deployed urgently.)

Variants and Related Words

• Cấp cứu (v/n): To provide emergency medical aid; emergency medical care.

  • Xe cấp cứu đang trên đường. (The ambulance is on its way.)

• Khẩn trương (adj): Pressing, requiring promptness and diligence (often for work/tasks, slightly less intense than "khẩn cấp").

  • Công nhân đang làm việc khẩn trương. (The workers are working diligently and promptly.)

Synonyms

• Urgent: Requiring immediate action.
• Pressing: Of vital importance; demanding attention.
• Critical: Of the greatest importance; at a point of crisis.
• Emergency: A serious, unexpected situation requiring immediate action.

Related Idioms and Phrases

• Tình thế khẩn cấp: A critical/emergency situation.

  • Chúng ta đang đối mặt với một tình thế khẩn cấp. (We are facing a critical situation.)

• Họp khẩn cấp: To hold an emergency meeting.

  • Hội đồng quản trị đã họp khẩn cấp. (The board of directors held an emergency meeting.)

adj

1. urgent; pressing
   • trường hợp khẩn cấp
     urgent case