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Vital vs Exigent - What's the difference?

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Vital is a related term of exigent.


As adjectives the difference between vital and exigent

is that vital is relating to, or characteristic of life while exigent is urgent; needing immediate action.

As a noun exigent is

(archaic) extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.

vital

English

(wikipedia vital)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to, or characteristic of life.
    • vital''' energies; '''vital''' functions; '''vital actions
  • Necessary to the continuation of life; being the seat of life; being that on which life depends.
    • The brain is a vital organ.
  • * Spenser
    • Do the heavens afford him vital food?
  • Invigorating or life-giving.
  • Necessary to continued existence.
    • The transition to farming was vital for the creation of civilisation.
  • Relating to the recording of life events.
    • Birth, marriage and death certificates are vital records.
  • Very important.
    • It is vital that you don't forget to do your homework.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2012-12-14
    • , author=Simon Jenkins, authorlink=Simon Jenkins , title=We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys , volume=188, issue=2, page=23 , date=2012-12-21 , magazine= citation , passage=David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.}}
  • Containing life; living.
  • * Milton
    • spirits that live throughout, vital in every part
  • * Alexander Pope
    • The dart flew on, and pierced a vital part.
  • Capable of living; in a state to live; viable.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • Pythagoras and Hippocrates affirm the birth of the seventh month to be vital .

    Derived terms

    * vital force * vital organ * vital signs * vital statistics

    Related terms

    * devive * revive * survive * viable * vitality * vivid

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    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)