 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
imperative
adjective
1: requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons
proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative";
"requests that grew more and more imperative" [ant: {beseeching}]
2: relating to verbs in the imperative mood
noun
1: a mood that expresses an intention to influence the
listener's behavior [syn: {imperative mood}, {jussive
mood}]
2: some duty that is essential and urgent
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Imperative \Im*per"a*tive\, adjective [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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Imperative \Im*per"a*tive\, noun (Gram.)
The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
256 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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