Friday, November 4, 2011

Exigent

adj: urgent; requiring immediate action
1.requiring immediate action or aid; urgent; pressing.
2.requiring a great deal, or more than is reasonable.

The patient was losing blood so rabidly that it was exigent to stop the source of the bleeding.

This is one of the most exigentproblems facing the profession today.
How much and what type of urgency constitutes an exigentcircumstance? .
The exigenttime scale of the evolutionary crisis still has not captured their attention.

Synonyms: critical, imperative, needed, urgent

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