What's the difference between hurried and urgent?

Hurried


Definition:

  • (a.) Urged on; hastened; going or working at speed; as, a hurried writer; a hurried life.
  • (a.) Done in a hurry; hence, imperfect; careless; as, a hurried job.
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Hurry

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And while teaching unions wanted him to slow down, they totally missed the point – all the hurry and the change and the disruption were intentional.
  • (2) Sometimes the person who is going to die will appear to be angry and quite bossy, and tell me to hurry up, but I know it is not how they are feeling inside," she says.
  • (3) Kevin Rudd's election campaign in 2007 was dubbed "hurry up and wait" by some wags.
  • (4) Cardiff City waited 51 years for this day but it turned out to be one they would rather forget in a hurry.
  • (5) Home is his other haven, but so hurried was his departure, he did not have time to bring anything with him.
  • (6) Inflation rises, but we should still fear deflation Read more Sharply lower oil prices are set to keep a lid on inflation, leaving the UK central bank in no hurry to raise rates above 0.5% , where they have remained for nearly seven years.
  • (7) The French said they were in no hurry to reach a deal, indicating that the summit could collapse in failure over the next 48 hours.
  • (8) It reminded me to look at the sky, absorb the air, and listen to the wind that bristles as it hurries by.
  • (9) But, in a hurry as ever, his eye had wandered beyond the Arno to an altogether different place: the headquarters of the PD.
  • (10) And still an estimated 42,000-50,000 refugees across Germany are being housed in the tent cities that were erected hurriedly over the summer and autumn.
  • (11) Why would any loving parent be in a hurry to rob their child of such potent relief?
  • (12) Spicer, who so viciously attacked the press on Saturday, had to hurriedly walk back the comments of his boss when Trump, during an interview with the Washington Post before the inauguration, promised “insurance for everybody”.
  • (13) The brief said: "It is unsatisfactory that personal and constitutional questions of such high importance should still depend on the operation of an 18th-century statute which was admittedly passed hurriedly, and in the face of considerable opposition, to deal with an ad hoc situation created largely by the unsatisfactory conduct of King George III's brothers."
  • (14) Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up.
  • (15) The US Congress has made attempts, passing several stimulus measures, but almost all were hurried and ill thought-out.
  • (16) He stumps at the dump on Sundays, Woodmansee explained – not on Saturdays or Wednesdays – because “they have a cup of coffee in their car, they’re not in a hurry and willing to talk about Trump”.
  • (17) "The problem won't be solved unless you let them hurry up and die."
  • (18) I seesaw-grunted out of bed at 8.30am and had a bird bath, soaping mainly the naughty bits, for I was in a hurry that Wednesday: it was the day I filed my Observer TV review.
  • (19) Crunching their way gingerly along pavements scattered with de-icing salt, they hurried from shop to shop – young mothers wheeling pushchairs, older women leaning heavily on shopping trolleys, men trudging alongside their partners, laden with carrier bags.
  • (20) The Nobel prize has a cachet that will not be surpassed in a hurry.

Urgent


Definition:

  • (a.) Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This case demonstrates that the manifestations may be delayed and that urgent surgical intervention may be lifesaving despite the precarious status of these patients.
  • (2) Enright said: “We call on the home secretary and chair of IICSA [the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse] to engage actively and urgently to find a way forward that secures the confidence of survivors and provides the inquiry’s legal team with the resources and support they need to deliver justice and truth that survivors deserve.” Stein said his clients were “deeply disatisfied” with aspects of how the inquiry had been conducted but called for Emmerson to stay, adding: “I urge the home secretary to seek to find a way in which his valuable contribution can be maintained”.
  • (3) We are urgently investigating this incident with our supplier and ask customers to return this product to their local store."
  • (4) The patient presented urgently for Caesarean section, with fluid overload and worsening thrombocytopaenia.
  • (5) Their confidence in the practitioner's clinical judgment was greater in their care of nonurgent and urgent patients.
  • (6) The pope has written in his encyclical of the urgent need to reduce climate change gases.
  • (7) Zoellick was also clear that action was now urgently needed.
  • (8) The following year yet another Bank analyst wrote a report on BCCI entitled "Why action is now urgently required".
  • (9) And we owe [Hickox] better than that and all the people who do this work better than that.” The White House indicated that it was urgently reviewing the federal guidelines for returning healthcare workers, “recognising that these medical professionals’ selfless efforts to fight this disease on the front lines will be critical to bringing this epidemic under control, the only way to eliminate the risk of additional cases here at home”.
  • (10) The urgent endoscopy of the superior gastrointestinal haemorrhage carefully and quickly helps in clarifying the following questions: Is the patient going on bleeding?
  • (11) Close cooperation of ophthalmological departments with vitreoretinal centres and early performance of urgent surgery are the basic prerequisites of better functional results of PPV in EHE.
  • (12) "Ministers must urgently get behind a different approach to food and farming that delivers real sustainable solutions rather than peddling the snake oil that is GM ."
  • (13) Urinary frequency was normalized in 6 out of 16 (37.5%), urgency ceased in 6 out of 17 (35.7%) and urgent incontinence disappeared in 9 out of 14 (50%) patients.
  • (14) This issue should attract attention more urgently now in light of the deaths in Savar.
  • (15) Guide-wire fragments retained in the coronary artery system after PTCA are removed either immediately by means of catheter techniques or by urgent operation.
  • (16) Ownership is not the problem, affordable homes for people are what are urgently needed and will, it seems, need a new government.
  • (17) It is understood that counterterrorism police at Heathrow are urgently seeking a meeting with senior UKBA management over the missed alerts.
  • (18) Alongside investment in health campaigns to help people reduce their risk of cancer, the government urgently needs to take action to stop children starting smoking by introducing standardised packaging for cigarettes without delay”, he added.
  • (19) Four of the six related deaths and half the urgent operations occurred among 18 patients iwth colonic dilatation.
  • (20) The other two patients underwent urgent adrenalectomy and had postoperative improvement in their multiple organ system failure.