exigent
adjective
1. demanding attention
- regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous
Similar word(s): imperative, clamant, crying, insistent, instant
2. requiring precise accuracy
- became more exigent over his pronunciation
noun
1. (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency
2. (obsolete, Britain, law) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.