URGENTLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does urgently mean? 

• URGENTLY (adverb)
  The adverb URGENTLY has 1 sense:

1. with great urgency

  Familiarity information: URGENTLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• URGENTLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With great urgency

Synonyms:

desperately; urgently

Context example:

the soil desperately needed potash

Pertainym:

urgent (compelling immediate action)

 Context examples 

As antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains emerge and pose increasing health risks, says Lynda Williams, a biogeochemist at Arizona State University (ASU), new antibacterial agents are urgently needed.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

Being in or verging on a state of crisis or emergency; urgently needed; absolutely necessary.

(Critical, NCI Thesaurus)

Interstitial cystitis (IC) is a condition that causes discomfort or pain in the bladder and a need to urinate frequently and urgently.

(Interstitial Cystitis, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)

And it was the voice of a human being—a known, loved, well-remembered voice—that of Edward Fairfax Rochester; and it spoke in pain and woe, wildly, eerily, urgently.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"And we urgently need to find answers for not just football players, but veterans and other individuals exposed to head trauma."

(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)

Our presence is most urgently needed.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Astronomers are urgently working to point telescopes around the world and in space at this notable object.

(Small Asteroid or Comet 'Visits' from Beyond the Solar System, NASA)

An emergency cesarean section that is carried out urgently in cases of fetal distress or severe maternal complication that is life threatening to either or both of them.

(Crash Caesarean Section, NCI Thesaurus)

A disorder characterized by an enduring pattern of an extreme need to be taken care of together with fear of separation that lead the individual to urgently seek out and submit to another person and allow that person to make decisions that impact all areas of the individual's life.

(Dependent Personality Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Depression affects at least one in six of us at some point in our lifetime, and better treatments are urgently needed, said senior author Abraham Palmer, PhD, professor of psychiatry and vice chair for basic research at UC San Diego School of Medicine.

(New Method for Treating Depression, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)