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Imperative   /ɪmpˈɛrətɪv/   Listen
noun
Imperative  n.  (Gram.) The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.


adjective
Imperative  adj.  
1.
Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders. "The suit of kings are imperative."
2.
Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.
3.
(Gram.) Expressive of command, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.





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"Imperative" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the help of Smithie, dressed rather elaborately for the occasion, and when she saw me prepared to accompany her in, I think it was a grey suit, she protested that silk hat and frock coat were imperative. I was recalcitrant, she quoted an illustrated paper showing a garden party with the King present, and finally I capitulated—but after my evil habit, resentfully.... Eh, dear! those old quarrels, how pitiful they were, how trivial! And how sorrowful they are to recall! I think they grow ...
— Tono Bungay • H. G. Wells
... a clockmaker cannot find himself in a room in the presence of a clock without experiencing the irresistible wish to wind it up, how much more must the whaler, before a whale, be seized with the imperative desire to take possession of it? The hunters of large game, they say, are more eager than the hunters of small game. Then, the larger the animal, the more it excites covetousness. Then, how should hunters of elephants and fishers of whalers feel? And then there was that disappointment, felt by all ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne
... answered the report with an imperative order to Travis. And the other knew he could no longer postpone the inevitable. And only by action could he blot out the haunting mental picture of Kaydessa once more drawn into ...
— The Defiant Agents • Andre Alice Norton
... and the children and Uncle Sam were ushered by an orderly into the presence of the Captain, who was just in the act of shaving. Uncle Sam's message to him had been so imperative that they were admitted at once to his presence, even though his face was covered with lather and he was likely to fill his mouth with soap if he opened it. Uncle Sam saluted, and the Twins, wishing to be as polite ...
— The French Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins
... said Mr. Thomas, urge men to recognise that, in the present state of the country, it was imperative that soppages ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, Feb. 5, 1919 • Various


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