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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. Compelling immediate attention: burning, crying, emergent, exigent, imperative, instant, pressing, urgent. See BIG. 2. So serious as to be at the point of crisis or necessary to resolve a crisis: acute, climacteric, critical, crucial, desperate. See SAFETY. 3. Portending future disaster: apocalyptic, apocalyptical, baneful, direful, fateful, fire-and-brimstone, grave2, hellfire, ominous, portentous, unlucky. See LUCK, WARN. 4. Causing or able to cause fear: appalling, direful, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, redoubtable, scary, terrible, tremendous. See FEAR.
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