urge
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
an instinctive motive
profound religious impulses
Types & categories
- motivation hypernym
- abience hyponym
- adience hyponym
- death instinct hyponym
- wanderlust hyponym
Sense 2 verb
force or impel in an indicated direction
I urged him to finish his studies
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- pressure derivation
- exhortation derivation
- exhortation derivation
- urging derivation
- pressing derivation
- exhortative derivation
Sense 3 noun
a strong restless desire
why this urge to travel?
Types & categories
- desire hypernym
Related & opposite
- itch derivation
Sense 4 verb
push for something
The travel agent recommended strongly that we not travel on Thanksgiving Day
Types & categories
- propose hypernym
Related & opposite
- recommendation derivation
- importunity derivation
- pressing derivation
Sense 5 verb
spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts
The crowd cheered the demonstrating strikers
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- urging derivation
- exhortation derivation
- exhortation derivation
- shouting derivation
- cheerer derivation
- pressing derivation
- exhortative derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | motivation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | abience |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | adience |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | death instinct |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | wanderlust |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pressure |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | urging |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | pressing |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortative |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | counsel |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | hurry |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | push |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | advocate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | itch |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | desire |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | recommendation |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | importunity |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | pressing |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | propose |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | urging |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortation |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortation |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | shouting |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | cheerer |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | pressing |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | exhortative |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | encourage |
| 5 | hyponym | Types & categories | cheerlead |