Imperative

Definition:

  • (a.) Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.
  • (a.) Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.
  • (a.) Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.
  • (n.) The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.

Compare imperative with other words:

imperative vs. obligation

imperative vs. importance

imperative vs. impetrative

exclamatory vs. imperative

imperative vs. obligatory

imperative vs. necessity

critical vs. imperative

imperative vs. require

imperative vs. momentous

emergency vs. imperative

imperatival vs. imperative

emphatic vs. imperative

imperative vs. optative

imperative vs. indicative

imperative vs. required

imperative vs. paramount

imperative vs. pressing

exigent vs. imperative

imperative vs. mobile

imperative vs. indispensable

dissertation vs. imperative

binding vs. imperative

imperative vs. pertinent

imperative vs. vital

hortative vs. imperative

imperative vs. imperatively

imperative vs. prohibitive

compulsory vs. imperative

imperative vs. mandatory