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Urgent vs Badly - What's the difference?

urgent | badly |

As adjectives the difference between urgent and badly

is that urgent is requiring immediate attention while badly is (northern england) ill, unwell.

As an adverb badly is

in a bad manner.

urgent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Requiring immediate attention.
    • An urgent appeal was sent out for assistance.

    Synonyms

    * pressing * needly

    Derived terms

    * urgently * urgency

    Related terms

    * urge

    Anagrams

    * ----

    badly

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (Northern England) Ill, unwell.
    • He's never badly'''''. (''He's never '''ill .)

    Adverb

  • In a bad manner.
  • Very much; to a great degree.
    • I want it so badly .

    Usage notes

    * Badly is sometimes used after feel in its copulative sense where one might expect an adjective, ie, bad. Most prescriptive grammarians prefer "I feel bad" to "I feel badly", but "I feel badly" is widely used.

    Anagrams

    * English suppletive adverbs