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Urgent vs Exigent - What's the difference?

urgent | exigent |

As adjectives the difference between urgent and exigent

is that urgent is requiring immediate attention while exigent is urgent; needing immediate action.

As a noun exigent is

extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.

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

    * ----

    exigent

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Urgent; needing immediate action.
  • * 2003 , , U.S. Department of Defence
    • Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority.
  • Demanding; needing great effort.

    • Related terms

    * exigence * exigency * exigently

    Derived terms

    * allocatur exigent

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency
  • * 1591 ,
    • These eyes, like lamps whose wasting oil is spent, \ Wax dim, as drawing to their exigent ;
  • * 1611 ,
    • Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome, [Cicero 5° de finibus.] there was one or other that called for an interpreter: so lest the Church be driven to the like exigent , it is necessary to have translations in a readiness.
  • (obsolete, UK, legal) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.
    • (Abbott)