Usually means: Requiring immediate action or aid.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. exigent: Merriam-Webster
  2. exigent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. exigent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. exigent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. exigent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Exigent, exigent: Wordnik
  7. exigent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. exigent: Wiktionary
  9. exigent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. exigent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. exigent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. exigent: Dictionary.com
  13. Exigent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. exigent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. exigent: Rhymezone
  16. Exigent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. exigent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. exigent: FreeDictionary.org
  19. exigent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. exigent: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. exigent: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. exigent: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. exigent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exigent: Encyclopedia

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  1. exigent: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. exigent: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (exigent)

▸ adjective:  Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
▸ adjective:  Demanding; requiring great effort.
▸ noun:  (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.
▸ noun:  (archaic) The amount that is required.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, British, law) A writ in proceedings before outlawry.

Similar:
insistent, imperative, demanding, exacting, instant, clamant, crying, dire, urgent, exigeant, more...

Opposite:
non-urgent, trivial, unimportant, insignificant

Types:
critical, urgent, pressing, acute, severe, grave, crucial, more...

Phrases:
exigent circumstances, Exigent circumstance, exigent endeavor, more...

Adjectives:
such, more, little, present, unavoydable, like, old, last, same, desperate

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Similar:
insistent, imperative, demanding, exacting, instant, clamant, crying, dire, urgent, exigeant, more...

Opposite:
non-urgent, trivial, unimportant, insignificant

Types:
critical, urgent, pressing, acute, severe, grave, crucial, more...

Phrases:
exigent circumstances, Exigent circumstance, exigent endeavor, more...

Adjectives:
such, more, little, present, unavoydable, like, old, last, same, desperate

Colors:
    crimson,     scarlet,     vermilion,     ruby,     burgundy, more...



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