About The Word Imperative
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Imperative
| Imperative Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Imperative?
[n] some duty that is essential and urgent
[n] a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
[adj] requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"
[adj] (grammar) relating to verbs in the imperative mood
Synonyms | Synonyms for Imperative: adjuratory |
clamant |
commanding |
crying |
desperate |
exigent |
imperative mood |
insistent |
instant |
jussive mood |
peremptory |
pressing |
urgent
Related Terms | Find terms related to Imperative: absolute |
absolutist |
absolutistic |
acid |
acute |
allegiance |
arbitrary |
aristocratic |
arrogant |
ascendant |
assigned task |
authoritarian |
authoritative |
authorized |
autocratic |
basic |
behest |
bidding |
binding |
biting |
bossy |
bounden duty |
burden |
burning |
business |
call of duty |
canon |
case of need |
charge |
choiceless |
claimed |
clamant |
clamorous |
clothed with authority |
coactive |
code |
command |
commanding |
commandment |
commitment |
compelling |
competent |
compulsatory |
compulsive |
compulsory |
conclusive |
conditional |
consequential |
considerable |
constraining |
controlling |
convention |
corrosive |
critical |
crucial |
crying |
cutting |
de rigueur |
decisive |
decretal |
decretive |
decretory |
dedication |
deference |
demanded |
despotic |
devoir |
devotion |
dictate |
dictated |
dictating |
dictation |
dictatorial |
dictum |
dire necessity |
direct order |
directive |
dogmatic |
dominant |
domineering |
driving |
duly constituted |
duties and responsibilities |
duty |
effective |
eminent |
empowered |
entailed |
essential |
ethics |
ex officio |
exigence |
exigency |
exigent |
fealty |
feudal |
final |
forceful |
forcible |
form |
formula |
fundamental |
general principle |
golden rule |
governing |
great |
grinding |
guideline |
guiding principle |
gutsy |
hard-and-fast |
harsh |
hegemonic |
hegemonistic |
hest |
high-handed |
high-pressure |
high-priority |
homage |
immediacy |
imperativeness |
imperial |
imperious |
important |
importunate |
imposed |
impressive |
incisive |
indicative |
indispensable |
inevitable |
influential |
insistent |
instant |
instructive |
involuntary |
irresistible |
irrevocable |
jussive |
law |
leading |
line of duty |
lordly |
loyalty |
magisterial |
magistral |
mandated |
mandating |
mandatory |
masterful |
matter of necessity |
maxim |
mighty |
mission |
mitzvah |
mode |
momentous |
monocratic |
mood |
moral |
mordant |
must |
necessary |
necessitous |
nervous |
norm |
obligating |
obligation |
obligative |
obligatory |
official |
onus |
oppressive |
optative |
order |
ordering |
ordinance |
ought |
overbearing |
overruling |
penetrating |
peremptory |
permissive |
piercing |
pivotal |
place |
pleasure |
poignant |
potent |
potential |
powerful |
preceptive |
predicament |
preeminent |
prerequisite |
prescript |
prescriptive |
pressing |
pressingness |
pressure |
prestigious |
principium |
principle |
prominent |
puissant |
punchy |
ranking |
regulation |
repressive |
required |
requisite |
respect |
restraining |
rubric |
rule |
ruling |
say-so |
self-imposed duty |
senior |
sensational |
settled principle |
severe |
sinewed |
sinewy |
slashing |
special order |
standard |
stern |
strict |
striking |
strong |
subjunctive |
substantial |
superior |
suppressive |
supreme |
telling |
tenet |
totalitarian |
trenchant |
tyrannical |
tyrannous |
ultimate |
urgency |
urgent |
urgent need |
vigorous |
vital |
weighty |
will |
without appeal |
without choice |
word |
word of command |
working principle |
working rule
See Also | assertive |
duty |
modality |
mode |
mood |
obligation |
responsibility
Imperative In Webster's Dictionary
\Im*per"a*tive\, a. [L. imperativus, fr. imperare to
command; pref. im- in + parare to make ready, prepare: cf. F.
imp['e]ratif. See {Perade}, and cf. {Empire}.]
1. Expressive of command; containing positive command;
authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding;
authoritative; as, imperative orders.
The suit of kings are imperative. --Bp. Hall.
2. Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding;
compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.
3. (Gram.) Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or
exhortation; as, the imperative mood.
\Im*per"a*tive\, n. (Gram.)
The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.
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