Imperative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Expressing a command or plea; peremptory: requests that grew more and more imperative.
  • adj. Having the power or authority to command or control.
  • adj. Grammar Of, relating to, or constituting the mood that expresses a command or request.
  • adj. Impossible to deter or evade; pressing: imperative needs. See Synonyms at urgent.
  • n. A command; an order.
  • n. An obligation; a duty: social imperatives.
  • n. A rule, principle, or instinct that compels a certain behavior: a people driven to aggression by territorial imperatives.
  • n. Grammar The imperative mood.
  • n. Grammar A verb form of the imperative mood.
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  • n. The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
  • n. A verb in imperative mood.
  • n. An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
  • adj. essential
  • adj. Having a semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
  • adj. of, or relating to the imperative mood
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative.
  • adj. Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory.
  • adj. Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation.
  • n. The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Expressing command; containing positive command; peremptory; absolute: as, imperative orders.
  • Not to be avoided or evaded; that must be attended to or performed; obligatory; binding: as, an imperative duty or necessity.
  • n. In grammar, a mode or verbal form which expresses command, entreaty, advice, or exhortation.
  • n. In philosophy, a deliverance of conscience; a monition of the moral sense.
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  • adj. relating to verbs in the imperative mood
  • 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
    • Equivalent
    urgent    shrill    crying    clamant    peremptory   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    obligation    duty    responsibility    mood    modality   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    commanding    authoritative    obligatory    binding    compulsory   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    comparative    narrative   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    urgent    peremptory    imperious    authoritative    irresistible   
     
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