exigent

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: ex=i=gent

CIDE DICTIONARY

exigent, 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.  Burke.  [1913 Webster]

exigent, n. 

•  Exigency; pressing necessity; decisive moment.  [1913 Webster]

  "Why do you cross me in this exigent?"  [1913 Webster]
•  The name of a writ in proceedings before outlawry.  Abbott.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

exigent, adj.
1 requiring much; exacting.
2 urgent, pressing.

Etymology

ME f. L exigere EXACT

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

exigent

Requirement

N requirement, need, wants, necessities, necessaries, necessaries of life, stress, exigency, pinch, sine qua non, matter of necessity, case of need, case of life or death, needfulness, essentiality, necessity, indispensability, urgency, requisition, run upon, demand, call for, charge, claim, command, injunction, mandate, order, precept, desideratum, want, Adj, required, requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite, called for, in demand, in request, urgent, exigent, pressing, instant, crying, absorbing, in want of, destitute of, ex necessitate rei, of necessity, there is no time to lose, it cannot be spared, it cannot be dispensed with, mendacem memorem esse oportet, necessitas non habet legem, nec tecum possum trivere nec sine te.

Severity

N severity, strictness, harshness, rigor, stringency, austerity, inclemency, arrogance, precisianism, arbitrary power, absolutism, despotism, dictatorship, autocracy, tyranny, domineering, oppression, assumption, usurpation, inquisition, reign of terror, martial law, iron heel, iron rule, iron hand, iron sway, tight grasp, brute force, brute strength, coercion, strong hand, tight hand, hard lines, hard measure, tender mercies, sharp practice, pipe-clay, officialism, tyrant, disciplinarian, precisian, martinet, stickler, bashaw, despot, hard master, Draco, oppressor, inquisitor, extortioner, harpy, vulture, accipitres, birds of prey, raptorials, raptors, severe, strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative, coercive, tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial, inclement, cruel, haughty, arrogant, precisian, severely, with a high hand, with a strong hand, with a tight hand, with a heavy hand, at the point of the sword, at the point of the bayonet, Delirant reges plectuntur Achivi, manu forti, ogni debole ha sempre il suo tiranno.

Discontent

N discontent, discontentment, dissatisfaction, dissent, disappointment, mortification, cold comfort, regret, repining, taking on, heart-burning, heart-grief, querulousness, hypercriticism, inquietude, vexation of spirit, soreness, worry, concern, fear, malcontent, grumbler, growler, croaker, dissident, dissenter, laudator temporis acti, censurer, complainer, fault-finder, murmerer, cave of Adullam, indignation meeting, winter of our discontent, with what I most enjoy contented least, discontented, dissatisfied, unsatisfied, ungratified, dissident, dissentient, malcontent, malcontented, exigent, exacting, hypercritical, repining, regretful, down in the mouth, in high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor, glum, sulky, sour as a crab, soured, sore, out of humor, out of temper, disappointing, unsatisfactory, frustrated (failure), Int, so much the worse!, that won't do, that will never do, it will never do, curtae nescio quid semper abest rei, ne Jupiter Quidem omnibus placet, poor in abundance, famished at a feast.