Definitions
- Encouraging someone to take a specific action or make a decision. - Motivating someone to do something through passionate and persuasive language. - Urging someone to follow a particular course of action, often with a sense of urgency.
- Encouraging someone to take a specific action or make a decision. - Motivating someone to do something through persuasive language or emotional appeal. - Pressing someone to take immediate action or make a decision, often due to a sense of urgency or importance.
List of Similarities
- 1Both words involve encouraging someone to take action or make a decision.
- 2Both words can be used to motivate someone through persuasive language.
- 3Both words can convey a sense of urgency or importance.
- 4Both words are verbs that describe an action taken towards another person.
What is the difference?
- 1Intensity: Exhort is more forceful and passionate than urge.
- 2Purpose: Exhort is often used to inspire or motivate someone towards a specific goal or action, while urge can be used for a wider range of purposes.
- 3Tone: Exhort can have a more formal or authoritative tone, while urge is more commonly used in everyday language and can have a more casual tone.
- 4Frequency: Urge is more commonly used than exhort in everyday language.
- 5Connotation: Exhort can imply a sense of obligation or duty, while urge can imply a sense of advice or suggestion.
Remember this!
Exhort and urge are synonyms that both involve encouraging someone to take action or make a decision. However, exhort is more forceful and passionate, often used to inspire or motivate someone towards a specific goal or action. Urge, on the other hand, is more commonly used and can have a wider range of purposes, from motivating someone to giving advice or suggestions.
