Borrowed fromLatinimperātīvus.
imperative (comparativemoreimperative,superlativemostimperative)
- Essential;crucial; extremelyimportant.
That you come here right now isimperative.
1941 May, “Jubilee of the City Tube”, inRailway Magazine, page224:Meantime, alterations at King William Street had becomeimperative, and by December 22, 1895, the station had been remodelled, as at Stockwell, to provide an island platform with lines each side, and a scissors crossing.
2019, Con Man Games, SmashGames, quoting Felix,Kindergarten 2, SmashGames:Give this document to Ozzy. It'simperative that he reads and understands it. Got it?
- (grammar) Of, or relating to theimperative mood.
- Hypernym:mandative
- (computingtheory) Havingsemantics that incorporatesmutable variables.
- Antonym:functional
- Expressing acommand; authoritatively or absolutelydirective.
imperative orders
1612–1626,[Joseph Hall], “(please specify the page)”, in[Contemplations vpon the Principall Passages of the Holy Storie], volume(please specify |volume=II, V, or VI), London,→OCLC:The suits of kings areimperative.
essential
- Arabic:أَسَاسِيّ (ar)(ʔasāsiyy),ضَرُورِيّ(ḍarūriyy)
- Bengali:জরুরি (bn)(joruri),অত্যন্ত গুরুত্বপূর্ণ(ottonto guruttopurno)
- Catalan:imperatiu (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:迫切的(pòqiè de),必須的 /必须的(bìxū de),至關重要的 /至关重要的(zhìguānzhòngyào de)
- Czech:rozkazovací n,nutný (cs)
- Dutch:noodzakelijk (nl)
- Esperanto:imperativa
- Finnish:välttämätön (fi),pakollinen (fi)
- French:impératif (fr),essentiel (fr),indispensable (fr)
- German:essenziell (de),essentiell (de),notwendig (de),unverzichtbar (de),wesentlich (de)
- Greek:επιτακτικός (el)(epitaktikós)
- Hungarian:okvetlenül/rendkívül/különösen/égetőenfontos
- Icelandic:mikilvægur (is)
- Italian:imperativo (it) m,necessario (it) m,necessaria (it) f
- Korean:긴요한(ginyohan),반드 필요한(bandeu piryohan)
- Latin:necessus,necessum
- Plautdietsch:drinjent
- Polish:arcyważny (pl)
- Portuguese:essencial (pt),imperativo (pt)
- Russian:обяза́тельный (ru)(objazátelʹnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic:àithneach
- Spanish:imperativo (es)
- Turkish:mecburi (tr),zorunlu (tr)
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grammar: of, or relating to the imperative mood
computing: having semantics that incorporates mutable variables
authoritatively or absolutely directive
imperative (countable anduncountable,pluralimperatives)
- (uncountable, grammar) Thegrammatical mood expressing an order (seejussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
- Synonym:imperative mood
- Coordinate terms:assertoric,interrogative
The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in theimperative.
- (countable, grammar) Averb in the imperative mood.
- (countable) An essential action, amust: something which is imperative.
Visiting Berlin is animperative.
2014 March 1,Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, inThe Daily Telegraph (Review), pageR19:Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictoryimperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility.
2020 December 2, Industry Insider, “The costs of cutting carbon”, inRail, page76:The newimperative for investment is the Government's objective to secure carbon-neutral transport emissions by 2040.
imperative f pl
- feminineplural ofimperativo
Fromimperātīvus(“commanded”), fromimperō(“command, order”), fromim-(form ofin) +parō(“prepare, arrange; intend”).
imperātīvē (notcomparable)
- In animperative manner,imperatively.
imperative n pl
- indefiniteplural ofimperativ
