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Exigent   /ˈɛksɪdʒənt/   Listen
Exigent

adjective
1.
Demanding attention.  Synonyms: clamant, crying, insistent, instant.  "A crying need" , "Regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous" , "Insistent hunger" , "An instant need"
2.
Requiring precise accuracy.  Synonym: exacting.  "Became more exigent over his pronunciation"






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"Exigent" Quotes from Famous Books



... introspection, and are easily worried about their own indispositions or the illnesses of their friends. They are often timorous and apprehensive, and prone to pedantism. The moral sentiments are pronounced in most cases, and if they are, as a rule, somewhat exigent and egotistic, they have a lively sense of ...
— Why Worry? • George Lincoln Walton, M.D.

... desiderate[obs3]; desire &c. 865; be necessary &c. Adj. Adj. required &c. v.; requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite; called for; in demand, in request. urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing. in want of; destitute of &c. 640. Adv. ex necessitate rei &c. (necessarily) 601[Lat]; of necessity. Phr. there is no time to lose; it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with; mendacem memorem esse oportet [Lat][Quintilian]; necessitas ...
— Roget's Thesaurus



Words linked to "Exigent" :   exacting, exigency, imperative, crying, clamant, demanding



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