Associations to the word «Exigent»

Wiktionary

EXIGENT, adjective. Urgent; needing immediate action.
EXIGENT, adjective. Demanding; needing great effort.
EXIGENT, noun. (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency
EXIGENT, noun. (obsolete) (UK) (legal) The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.

Dictionary definition

EXIGENT, adjective. Demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need".
EXIGENT, adjective. Requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation".

Wise words

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Friedrich Nietzsche