Compelling immediate attention

• urgent

  1. Compelling immediate action or attention; pressing.
  2. Conveying a sense of pressing importance:

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• pressing

  1. Demanding immediate attention; urgent:
  2. Very earnest or insistent:
  3. The process or an instance of applying pressure.

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• instant

  1. A period of time so short as to be almost imperceptible.
  2. A particular or precise time:
  3. The current month:

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• exigent

  1. Requiring immediate action; pressing:
  2. Having or making urgent demands; demanding:

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• emergent

  1. Coming into view, existence, or notice:
  2. Emerging:
  3. Rising above a surrounding medium, especially a fluid.

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• dire

  1. Warning of or having dreadful or terrible consequences; calamitous:
  2. Urgent; desperate:

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• crying

  1. Demanding or requiring action or attention:
  2. Abominable; reprehensible:

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• burning

  1. Marked by flames or intense heat:
  2. Characterized by intense emotion; passionate:
  3. Of immediate import; urgent:

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Imposed on one by authority, command, or convention

• requisite

  1. Required; essential.
  2. Something that is indispensable; a requirement:

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• required

  1. Needed; essential:
  2. Obligatory:

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• obligatory

  1. Of the nature of an obligation; compulsory:
  2. Required as part of a routine course of action or cultural expectation; predictable:
  3. Obligate.

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• necessary

  1. Needed or required:
  2. Unavoidably determined by prior conditions or circumstances; inevitable:
  3. Logically inevitable:

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• mandatory

  1. Required or commanded by authority; obligatory:
  2. Of, having the nature of, or containing a mandate.
  3. Holding a League of Nations mandate over a territory.

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• compulsory

  1. Obligatory; required:
  2. Employing or exerting compulsion; coercive.
  3. An element, such as a dive or school figure, required of all competitors in an athletic competition.

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An act or course of action that is demanded of one, as by position, custom, law, or religion

• responsibility

  1. The state, quality, or fact of being responsible.
  2. Something for which one is responsible; a duty, obligation, or burden.

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• obligation

  1. A social, legal, or moral requirement, such as a duty, contract, or promise, that compels one to follow or avoid a particular course of action:
  2. The constraining power of a promise, contract, law, or sense of duty:
  3. A document in which a person binds himself or herself to undertake or refrain from doing a particular act.

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• need

  1. A condition or situation in which something must be supplied in order for a certain condition to be maintained or a desired state to be achieved:
  2. Something required or wanted; a requisite:
  3. Necessity; obligation:

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• must

  1. To be obliged or required by morality, law, or custom:
  2. To be compelled, as by a physical necessity or requirement:
  3. Used to express a command or admonition:

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• duty

  1. An act or a course of action that is required of one by position, social custom, law, or religion:
  2. Required action or service:
  3. Active military service:

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• commitment

  1. The act of referring a legislative bill to committee.
  2. Official consignment, as to a prison or mental health facility.
  3. A court order authorizing consignment to a prison.

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• charge

  1. To impose a duty, responsibility, or obligation on:
  2. To instruct or urge authoritatively; command:
  3. To instruct (a jury) about the law, its application, and the weighing of evidence.

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• burden

  1. Something that is carried.
  2. Something that is emotionally difficult to bear.
  3. A source of great worry or stress; weight:

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Necessary

• compelling

  1. Urgently requiring attention:
  2. Drivingly forceful:

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• crucial

  1. Extremely significant or important:
  2. Vital to the resolution of a crisis or the determination of an outcome:
  3. Having the form of a cross; cross-shaped.

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• immediate

  1. Occurring at once; happening without delay:
  2. Of or near the present time:
  3. Of or relating to the present time and place; current:

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• inescapable

  1. Impossible to escape or avoid; inevitable:

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Authoritative

• dominant

  1. Exercising the most power, control, or influence:
  2. Most abundant or conspicuous; predominant:
  3. Higher; overlooking:

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• commanding

  1. Having command; controlling.
  2. Dominating, as by magnitude or position:

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• masterful

  1. Acting or capable of acting as a master or leader, especially in being domineering or imperious:
  2. Having or showing mastery or skill; expert:

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