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exigent 音标拼音: ['ɛksɪdʒənt] a. 紧急的,迫切的,苛求的 紧急的,迫切的,苛求的 exigent adj 1: demanding attention; " clamant needs"; " a crying need"; " regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H. L. Mencken; " insistent hunger"; " an instant need" [ synonym: { clamant}, { crying}, { exigent}, { insistent}, { instant}] 2: requiring precise accuracy; " an exacting job"; " became more exigent over his pronunciation" [ synonym: { exigent}, { exacting}] Exigent \ Ex` i* gent\, a. [ L. exigens, - entis, p. pr. of exigere to drive out or forth, require, exact. See { Exact}.] Exacting or requiring immediate aid or action; pressing; critical. " At this exigent moment." -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster]
Exigent \ Ex" i* gent\, n. 1. Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Why do you cross me in this exigent? -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( o. Eng. Law) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry. -- Abbott. [ 1913 Webster] 95 Moby Thesaurus words for " exigent": Spartan, Spartanic, accurate, acute, astringent, attentive, austere, authoritarian, burdensome, burning, charged, choiceless, clamant, clamorous, climacteric, close, compelling, compulsory, conscientious, correct, critical, crucial, crying, decisive, delicate, demanding, detailed, dour, draining, emergent, exact, exacting, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, fine, finical, finicking, finicky, fussy, grasping, grievous, grim, harsh, high- pressure, high- priority, imperative, imperious, importunate, insistent, instant, kairotic, loaded, loud, mandatory, menacing, meticulous, minute, narrow, necessary, necessitous, nice, obligatory, oppressive, particular, persistent, pertinacious, pivotal, precise, precisianistic, precisionistic, pregnant, pressing, punctilious, punctual, refined, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, scrupulous, scrutinizing, severe, stern, strict, stringent, subtle, superincumbent, taxing, threatening, tough, unsparing, urgent, weighty, without choice |
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