- IMPERATIVE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
masterful, domineering, imperious, peremptory, imperative mean tending to impose one's will on others masterful implies a strong personality and ability to act authoritatively domineering suggests an overbearing or arbitrary manner and an obstinate determination to enforce one's will
- IMPERATIVE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
IMPERATIVE definition: 1 extremely important or urgent: 2 used for giving an instruction or order: 3 a sentence… Learn more
- IMPERATIVE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
IMPERATIVE definition: absolutely necessary or required; unavoidable See examples of imperative used in a sentence
- IMPERATIVE definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
In grammar, a clause that is in the imperative, or in the imperative mood, contains the base form of a verb and usually has no subject Examples are `Go away' and `Please be careful '
- Imperative — Meaning and Usage | Grammarly
Imperative refers to something essential or a direct command Learn how it's used in sentences, its role in grammar, common examples, key rules, and usage
- Imperative - definition of imperative by The Free Dictionary
A rule, principle, or need that requires or compels certain action: "the internal tension in [military] doctrine, between the desire to prescribe a common way of fighting and the imperative of adjusting particular military actions to circumstances" (Eliot A Cohen)
- imperative, adj. n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English . . .
There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the word imperative See ‘Meaning use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence
- Imperative - Definition, Meaning Synonyms | Vocabulary. com
When something absolutely has to be done and cannot be put off, use the adjective imperative Imperative is from Latin imperare, "to command," and its original use was for a verb form expressing a command: "Do it!" is an imperative sentence
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