Imperative

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative.
 * 1)  A verb in imperative mood.
 * 2)  An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
 * Visiting Berlin is an imperative.

Synonyms

 * imperative mood

Derived terms

 * first imperative
 * second imperative

Adjective

 * 1) essential
 * It is imperative that you come here right now.
 * 1)  Having a semantics that incorporates mutable variables.

Adverbs for Imperative
vitally; essentially; fundamentally; urgently; pressingly; harshly; severely; austerely; arbitrarily; absolutely; legally; tyrannically; strictly; rigidly; uncompromisingly; inexorably; dreadfully; highly.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From imperativus:.

Noun

 * Dutch:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:


 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: ,
 * Turkish:

Adjective

 * Arabic:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * German: essenziell, essentiell, notwendig unverzichtbar, wesentlich
 * Greek:


 * Icelandic: mikilvægur, mikilvæg, mikilvægt
 * Italian: imperativo, necessario , necessaria,
 * Latin: necessus, necessum
 * Scottish Gaelic: àithneach
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: zorunlu, mecburi

Adjective
imperative



Anagrams

 * riempivate

Adverb

 * 1) In an imperative manner, imperatively.

Related terms

 * imperābiliter
 * imperāns
 * imperātīvus
 * imperātōr


 * imperātōriē
 * imperātōrius
 * imperātrīx
 * imperātum


 * imperātus
 * imperiābiliter
 * imperiālis
 * imperiōsē


 * imperiōsus
 * imperitō
 * imperium
 * imperō

Alternative forms

 * inperātīvē

Etymology
From imperativus:, from impero:, from im-: + paro:.