adjective. Necessary or urgent: synonym: urgent.

adjective. Expressing a command or plea; peremptory.

adjective. Of, relating to, or constituting the mood that expresses a command or request.

noun. undefined

noun. A rule, principle, or need that requires or compels certain action.

noun. A command; an order.

noun. undefined

noun. The imperative mood.

noun. A verb form of the imperative mood.

Expressing command; containing positive command; peremptory; absolute: as, imperative orders.

Not to be avoided or evaded; that must be attended to or performed; obligatory; binding: as, an imperative duty or necessity.

noun. In grammar, a mode or verbal form which expresses command, entreaty, advice, or exhortation.

noun. In philosophy, a deliverance of conscience; a monition of the moral sense.

noun. The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.

adjective. Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative.

adjective. Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory.

adjective. Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation.

noun. The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.

noun. A verb in imperative mood.

noun. An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.

adjective. essential

adjective. Having a semantics that incorporates mutable variables.

adjective. of, or relating to the imperative mood

adjective. relating to verbs in the imperative mood

noun. some duty that is essential and urgent

noun. a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior

adjective. requiring attention or action

"In traditional tragedy, these are prescriptives; the imperative is absolute -- must, not should."

categorical imperative  imperative mode  social imperative  

adjuratory  clamant  crying  desperate  exigent  

duty  modality  mode  mood  obligation  

comparative  narrative  

authoritative  compel  decisive  explicit  frantic  

absolute  absolutist  absolutistic  acid  acute