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Hastily vs Urgently - What's the difference?

hastily | urgently |

As adverbs the difference between hastily and urgently

is that hastily is in a hasty manner; quickly, hurriedly while urgently is with great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.

hastily

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In a hasty manner; quickly, hurriedly.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
    • , chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.
  • (label) Soon, shortly.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vi:
    • she with liquors strong his eyes did steepe, / That nothing should him hastily awake [...].

    Synonyms

    * See also

    urgently

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With great haste, with a sense of urgency, because it is very important.
    • We all urgently need to apply solutions to the problem of pollution.
    Funds are urgently required if this work is to be completed as planned.
  • Continuously. With insistence.
    • He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.

    Synonyms

    * (great haste), imperatively, pressingly * (continuously), persistently, persuasively

    Antonyms

    * apathetically * half-heartedly