Exigent means pressing, and allowing no delay. Exigent circumstances, an exigent need, exigent demands.
In American law exigent circumstances is a defined term letting police enter without a warrant, which is why the phrase appears in every argument about that power. In ordinary use it means demanding rather than merely urgent.
1adjectiveexigentPressing, and allowing no delay.
“The exigent demands of the new baby left them little time for anything else.”
exigent is a quality.
Latin exigens comes from exigere, to demand or drive out.
Proto-Indo-European
*h₂eǵ-
Latin
exigēns
English, today
exigent
Built from
From Latin exigēns, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”). a doublet of exigeant.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA