0 very important and needing attention immediately:
1 (especially of a person's actions) repeated and determined in trying to get or do something:
His urgent pleas of innocence made no difference to the judge's decision.
Let's leave that matter aside for now and talk about the more urgent problem facing us.
Jack is in need of an urgent operation.
Consequently, there is an urgent need for the development of novel therapies for the treatment of osteomyelitis.
Such changes, which had by then become urgent, were also welcomed, for they reflected an almost universally acknowledged need.
A number of such buildings were in every respect in urgent need of restoration.