Meaning and example
demanding attention
Clamant needs
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 0.480 places exigent in the rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 68.6% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
- Known by
- 68.7%
a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
- Known by
- 68.4%
quick or skillful or adept in action or thought
- Known by
- 68.8%
a statement that deviates from or perverts the truth
- Known by
- 68.2%
full of trivial conversation
- Known by
- 68.2%
the reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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