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exigent
Synonyms and Antonyms of exigent
needing immediate attention started his workday with a flood of exigent matters that required his quick decision Synonyms burning, clamant, compelling, critical, crying, dire, emergent, acute, imperative, imperious, importunate, instant, necessitous, pressing, urgentRelated Words demanding, extreme, immediate, insistent, intense, overriding; crucial, desperate, grave, life-and-death (also life-or-death), serious, severe, vital; dangerous, explosive, hazardous, perilous, precarious, unstableNear Antonyms incidental, low-pressure, minor, negligible, trivial, unimportant; nonthreatening, safe, stableAntonyms noncritical, nonurgent
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