urgently

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   with great urgency

   health care reform is needed urgently

2. 2
   adv

   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.

3. 3
   adv

   Continuously. With insistence.

   He pleaded urgently for release from what he considered to be an unjust imprisonment.

Etymology

From urgent + -ly.