exigent   (Sound)

The adj exigent has 2 senses

• clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant -- (demanding attention; "clamant needs"; "a crying need"; "regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous"- H.L.Mencken; "insistent hunger"; "an instant need")


• exigent, exacting -- (requiring precise accuracy; "an exacting job"; "became more exigent over his pronunciation")