What is another word for imperative?
587 synonyms foundPronunciation:
[ ɪmpˈɛɹətˌɪv], [ ɪmpˈɛɹətˌɪv], [ ɪ_m_p_ˈɛ_ɹ_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]Table of Contents
Similar words for imperative:- authoritative (adjective)
- binding (adjective)
- burning (adjective)
- compulsory (adjective)
- crucial (adjective)
- decisive (adjective)
- dictatorial (adjective)
- dogmatic (adjective)
- dominant (adjective)
- domineering (adjective)
- essential (adjective)
- exigent (adjective)
- imperious (adjective)
- important (adjective)
- importunate (adjective)
- indispensable (adjective)
- insistent (adjective)
- insolent (adjective)
- instant (adjective)
- irresistible (adjective)
- life-and-death (adjective)
- mandatory (adjective)
- necessary (adjective)
- needful (adjective)
- obligatory (adjective)
- other relevant words (adjective)
- overbearing (adjective)
- peremptory (adjective)
- prerequisite (adjective)
- pressing (adjective)
- required (adjective)
- required/requisite (adjective)
- urgent (adjective)
- vital (adjective)
- act (noun)
- adjuratory (noun)
- command (noun)
- desperate (noun)
- ethics/ethic (noun)
- imperative (noun)
- linkdef (noun)
- mandate (noun)
- must (noun)
- necessity (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- prerequisite (noun)
- requirement (noun)
- requirement/requisite (noun)
- rightfulness (noun)
- state (noun)
- urgent (noun)
- other synonyms
- urgent
Synonyms for Imperative:
adj.
•authoritative (adjective)- doctrinaire,
- bossy,
- harsh,
- imperial,
- officious,
- bidding,
- high-handed,
- masterful,
- ordering,
- stern,
- powerful,
- autocratic,
- peremptory,
- aggressive,
- commanding.
- highpriority,
- most climatic,
- most high-priority,
- most highpriority,
- high priority,
- more climatic,
- most showdown,
- most high priority,
- pivotal,
- touch go,
- more showdown,
- more high priority,
- more high-priority,
- more highpriority.
- more strong-minded,
- most resolved,
- final,
- re-solute,
- re solute,
- re-solved,
- more resolved,
- strong minded,
- most strong minded,
- in tent,
- re solved,
- strongminded,
- more strongminded,
- litmus test,
- most strongminded,
- all out,
- more strong minded,
- most strong-minded.
- more dictative,
- more iron-handed,
- more ironhanded,
- more crack-the-whip,
- most iron handed,
- most dictative,
- more iron handed,
- un limited,
- most crack the whip,
- un-limited,
- un-restricted,
- most crack-the-whip,
- most iron-handed,
- most ironhanded,
- more crack the whip,
- iron handed,
- un restricted.
- as matter of course,
- in-evitable,
- most deductive,
- in evitable,
- more deductive,
- un-changeable,
- unerring,
- more doctrinal,
- as matter course,
- as a matter course,
- most excathedra,
- more excathedra,
- most doctrinal,
- most reasoned,
- un changeable,
- un qualified,
- more reasoned,
- un-erring,
- eternal,
- un-qualified,
- un erring.
- more overbalancing,
- fore-most,
- more outweighing,
- over weighing,
- most overbalancing,
- pre vailing,
- more predominate,
- sur passing,
- most outweighing,
- pre eminent,
- most surpassing,
- over-balancing,
- pre-dominate,
- more surpassing,
- most overweighing,
- fore most,
- pre siding,
- pre-siding,
- pre dominant,
- out weighing,
- sur-passing,
- para mount,
- pre-dominant,
- sovereign,
- more prevalent,
- pre-vailing,
- more transcendent,
- pre dominate,
- more overweighing,
- out-weighing,
- para-mount,
- preponderant,
- over balancing,
- most predominate,
- more obtaining,
- over-weighing,
- prevailing,
- most obtaining.
- wanted,
- more right-hand,
- most fundamental,
- right-hand,
- most right hand,
- more righthand,
- most right-hand,
- most righthand,
- more right hand.
- more perseverant,
- re sounding,
- un relenting,
- most perseverant,
- re-sounding,
- re-iterative,
- re iterative,
- resounding.
- more split second,
- most split second,
- pre sent,
- most split-second,
- more on the spot,
- most on the spot,
- more on-the-spot,
- splitsecond,
- most splitsecond,
- more splitsecond,
- more split-second,
- pre-sent,
- instantaneous,
- presentday,
- present day,
- most on-the-spot.
- all-important,
- earth-shattering,
- earthshattering,
- vitally important,
- life and death,
- earth-shaking,
- life or death,
- of vital importance,
- earthshaking.
- right hand,
- on the spot,
- bottom-line,
- hurry-up,
- exigent,
- decisive,
- Perseverant,
- overbearing,
- by fiat,
- insistent,
- overbalancing,
- heat-on,
- compulsory,
- clamant,
- important,
- domineering,
- iron-handed,
- incumbent on,
- pre-eminent,
- pressing,
- binding,
- hanging by thread,
- name of game,
- pre-requisite,
- straight out,
- authoritative,
- on-the-spot,
- strong-minded,
- meat-and-potatoes,
- overweighing,
- crucial,
- life-or-death,
- dictatorial,
- high-priority,
- climatic,
- Compulsatory,
- throwing weight around,
- split-second,
- imperious,
- name-of-the-game,
- on thin ice,
- highhanded,
- righthand,
- indispensable,
- top-priority,
- ex-cathedra,
- coal-and-ice,
- excathedra,
- urgent,
- namer,
- necessary,
- condign,
- prerequisite,
- nitty gritty,
- dictative,
- mandatory,
- doctrinal,
- obligatory,
- dogmatic,
- ironhanded,
- dominant,
- essential,
- deductive,
- vital,
- dire,
- as a matter of course,
- by nature,
- life-and-death,
- in driver's seat,
- crack-the-whip,
- on faith,
- crack the whip,
- ex cathedra,
- strategic,
- required,
- by natural law,
- sniffy,
- touch and go.
- more high and mighty,
- more high-and-mighty,
- up pity,
- most high and mighty,
- high-and-mighty,
- over bearing,
- sniffier,
- up-pity,
- sniffiest,
- Over-bearing.
- in tolerant,
- un compromising,
- un-deniable,
- in-controvertible,
- un-compromising,
- un deniable,
- in-tolerant,
- in controvertible.
- more claiming,
- most hurry up,
- hurryup,
- more hurry-up,
- most forcing,
- re quiring,
- most claiming,
- most hurryup,
- re-quiring,
- more heat-on,
- more forcing,
- most heaton,
- most hurry-up,
- more hurry up,
- more hurryup,
- heat on,
- more heaton,
- most heat on,
- more heat on,
- heaton,
- most heat-on,
- hurry up.
- more condign,
- more demanded,
- re commended,
- most condign,
- de served,
- most demanded,
- pre scribed,
- re-commended,
- pre-scribed,
- de-served.
- more calledfor,
- more top priority,
- more top-priority,
- more called-for,
- most calledfor,
- most called-for,
- more impelling,
- most top priority,
- more toppriority,
- most toppriority,
- top priority,
- most called for,
- toppriority,
- most impelling,
- more called for,
- calledfor,
- most top-priority.
- more meat-and-potatoes,
- most nittygritty,
- most life-or-death,
- nittygritty,
- more name-of-the-game,
- more nitty-gritty,
- under-lined,
- most life or death,
- most nitty gritty,
- most nitty-gritty,
- most underlined,
- more underlined,
- most coal-and-ice,
- most meat-and-potatoes,
- most name of the game,
- more name of the game,
- most meat and potatoes,
- more life-or-death,
- most coal and ice,
- more nitty gritty,
- more coal-and-ice,
- more coal and ice,
- more nittygritty,
- most name-of-the-game,
- namest,
- coal and ice,
- more meat and potatoes,
- more life or death,
- under lined.
n.
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- active.
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•
- feature,
- burning issue/question,
- key,
- basis,
- staple,
- core,
- element,
- priority,
- big,
- burning,
- concern,
- essence.
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•
- copula,
- charge,
- duty,
- responsibility,
- DO,
- burden,
- need,
- the future,
- auxiliary verb,
- the first person,
- the conditional,
- auxiliary,
- the active,
- aspect,
- conjugation.
- be-lief,
- right wrong,
- the golden rules,
- golden rules,
- rules conduct,
- right wrongs,
- right and wrongs,
- be lief.
- un deniabilities,
- in-dispensabilities,
- in dispensability,
- needfulnesses,
- un-deniability,
- no alternatives,
- indispensabilities,
- un deniability,
- in dispensabilities,
- undeniabilities,
- un-deniabilities,
- no choices,
- in-dispensability.
- inevitability,
- desideratum,
- necessity,
- vital part,
- undeniability,
- pre-requisites,
- state,
- indispensability,
- rightfulness,
- prerequisites,
- no alternative,
- requirements,
- criterias,
- Desiderata,
- Natural Laws,
- Necessaries,
- vital parts,
- command,
- needfulness,
- inevitabilities,
- vitals,
- oughts,
- state of affairs,
- must,
- committal,
- committals,
- rightness,
- natural law,
- Conventionalities,
- golden rule,
- ought,
- mandate,
- no choice,
- pre-conditions,
- ethics,
- right and wrong,
- conventionality.
Other synonyms:
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•
- finite,
- flatly,
- continuous,
- intransitive,
- transitive,
- non-finite,
- voluble,
- bantering,
- colloquial,
- ergative,
- impersonal,
- stative,
- windy,
- shouty,
- sing,
- future,
- Gibbering,
- imperfect,
- Brokenly,
- causative.
-
•
- commitment,
- crying,
- twang,
- quaver,
- inflection,
- definite,
- expression.
-
•
- croak,
- oral,
- fluent,
- progressive,
- weak.
-
•
- voice.
-
•
- flat.
-
•
- break.
Paraphrases for Imperative:
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Equivalence
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Adjective
indispensable, peremptory, essential.
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Noun, singular or mass
indispensable, essential.
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Adjective
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Independent
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Adjective
critical, compelling, necessary, must-have, overriding, needed, imperious, absolutely, ineluctable, prescriptive, much-needed, important, instrumental, categorical, all-important, bounden, key, incumbent, dire, decisive, integral, compulsory, central, imminent, immediate, desperate, unavoidable, overwhelming, restrictive, unconditional.
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Proper noun, singular
priorities.
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Noun, singular or mass
dictates, necessary, obligation, must, urgency, precondition, important, precept, key, demand, compulsory, commitment, priority, unavoidable.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
vital, pressing, indispensible, crucial, paramount, inescapable, prerequisite, pivotal, fundamental, requirement.
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Proper noun, singular
requirements.
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Noun, singular or mass
necessity, inevitability, crucial, commandment, prerequisite, fundamental, requirement.
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Adjective
Antonyms for Imperative:
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adj.
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all
beseeching.
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necessary
uncritical, inessential, free, optional, unrestrained, secondary, nonessential, unimportant, discretionary, voluntary, unnecessary, trivial, insignificant.
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Other antonyms:
docile, conditional, contingent, meek, humble, submissive, elective, unwanted, gentle, safe, inconsequential, mild, surplus, external, imploring, compliant, stable, undesired, pleading, lenient, yielding, negligible, superfluous, complaisant, excess, unneeded, extra, responsible, ductile, limited, noncritical, accountable, lowly, incidental, constitutional, minor, chosen, extraneous.
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all
Hyponym for Imperative:
n.
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act
responsibility, duty, obligation.
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act