587 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ ɪmpˈɛɹətˌɪv], [ ɪmpˈɛɹətˌɪv], [ ɪ_m_p_ˈɛ_ɹ_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]

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

Paraphrases for imperative

Hyponyms for imperative

Synonyms for Imperative:

• adj.

  • authoritative (adjective)
  • doctrinaire,
  • bossy,
  • harsh,
  • imperial,
  • officious,
  • bidding,
  • high-handed,
  • masterful,
  • ordering,
  • stern,
  • powerful,
  • autocratic,
  • peremptory,
  • aggressive,
  • commanding.
  • binding (adjective)
  • in-dissoluble,
  • un-alterable,
  • un alterable,
  • in dissoluble.
  • burning (adjective)
  • more acute.
  • compulsory (adjective)
  • more compulsatory,
  • most compulsatory.
  • crucial (adjective)
  • 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.
  • decisive (adjective)
  • 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.
  • dictatorial (adjective)
  • 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.
  • dogmatic (adjective)
  • 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.
  • dominant (adjective)
  • 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.
  • domineering (adjective)
  • crack whip,
  • in driver seat,
  • high handed,
  • in drivers seat,
  • on high horse.
  • essential (adjective)
  • wanted,
  • more right-hand,
  • most fundamental,
  • right-hand,
  • most right hand,
  • more righthand,
  • most right-hand,
  • most righthand,
  • more right hand.
  • exigent (adjective)
  • more constraining,
  • most constraining.
  • imperious (adjective)
  • overweening,
  • ex acting,
  • over-weening,
  • ex-acting,
  • over weening.
  • important (adjective)
  • far-reaching,
  • of moment,
  • of substance,
  • mattering much,
  • front-page,
  • front page,
  • of note.
  • importunate (adjective)
  • overly solicitous,
  • importunate,
  • Harassing.
  • indispensable (adjective)
  • in dispensable,
  • in-dispensable.
  • insistent (adjective)
  • more perseverant,
  • re sounding,
  • un relenting,
  • most perseverant,
  • re-sounding,
  • re-iterative,
  • re iterative,
  • resounding.
  • insolent (adjective)
  • insolent,
  • Procacious,
  • smart alecky,
  • out-of-line,
  • out of line,
  • flipper,
  • off-base.
  • instant (adjective)
  • 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.
  • irresistible (adjective)
  • irresistible,
  • compelling.
  • life-and-death (adjective)
  • all-important,
  • earth-shattering,
  • earthshattering,
  • vitally important,
  • life and death,
  • earth-shaking,
  • life or death,
  • of vital importance,
  • earthshaking.
  • mandatory (adjective)
  • Irremissible,
  • in-voluntary,
  • in voluntary,
  • more irremissible,
  • most irremissible.
  • necessary (adjective)
  • critical,
  • inescapable,
  • no turning back,
  • immediate,
  • acute,
  • clamorous.
  • needful (adjective)
  • needful.
  • obligatory (adjective)
  • requisite,
  • constraining,
  • inevitable.
  • Other relevant words: (adjective)
  • 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.
  • overbearing (adjective)
  • 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.
  • peremptory (adjective)
  • in tolerant,
  • un compromising,
  • un-deniable,
  • in-controvertible,
  • un-compromising,
  • un deniable,
  • in-tolerant,
  • in controvertible.
  • prerequisite (adjective)
  • pre requisite,
  • of the essence,
  • of essence.
  • pressing (adjective)
  • 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.
  • required (adjective)
  • involuntary,
  • Stipulated,
  • proviso,
  • inexorable.
  • required/requisite (adjective)
  • more condign,
  • more demanded,
  • re commended,
  • most condign,
  • de served,
  • most demanded,
  • pre scribed,
  • re-commended,
  • pre-scribed,
  • de-served.
  • urgent (adjective)
  • 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.
  • vital (adjective)
  • 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.

  •
  • active.
  •
  • feature,
  • burning issue/question,
  • key,
  • basis,
  • staple,
  • core,
  • element,
  • priority,
  • big,
  • burning,
  • concern,
  • essence.
  •
  • copula,
  • charge,
  • duty,
  • responsibility,
  • DO,
  • burden,
  • need,
  • the future,
  • auxiliary verb,
  • the first person,
  • the conditional,
  • auxiliary,
  • the active,
  • aspect,
  • conjugation.
  •
  • tone,
  • tremor.
  • act (noun)
  • imperative.
  • adjuratory (noun)
  • adjuratory.
  • command (noun)
  • devoir,
  • prohibitions,
  • devoirs,
  • obligation,
  • adjurations,
  • imperatives,
  • will,
  • adjuration.
  • desperate (noun)
  • desperate.
  • ethics/ethic (noun)
  • be-lief,
  • right wrong,
  • the golden rules,
  • golden rules,
  • rules conduct,
  • right wrongs,
  • right and wrongs,
  • be lief.
  • imperative (noun)
  • jussive mood,
  • imperative mood,
  • instant.
  • linkdef (noun)
  • imperative form.
  • mandate (noun)
  • goahead.
  • must (noun)
  • pre-condition,
  • pre condition,
  • pre conditions.
  • necessity (noun)
  • un deniabilities,
  • in-dispensabilities,
  • in dispensability,
  • needfulnesses,
  • un-deniability,
  • no alternatives,
  • indispensabilities,
  • un deniability,
  • in dispensabilities,
  • undeniabilities,
  • un-deniabilities,
  • no choices,
  • in-dispensability.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • 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.
  • prerequisite (noun)
  • pre requisites.
  • requirement (noun)
  • constraint,
  • requirement,
  • stipulation,
  • inexorability,
  • compulsion,
  • condition.
  • requirement/requisite (noun)
  • pre-occupation,
  • pro viso,
  • pro-viso,
  • pro-vision,
  • pre occupations,
  • pro vision,
  • pre possessions,
  • pro visos,
  • pro-visions,
  • pre-possessions,
  • pre-occupations,
  • pro-visos,
  • pre occupation,
  • pre-possession,
  • pre possession,
  • pro visions.
  • rightfulness (noun)
  • ethicality.
  • state (noun)
  • out look,
  • out-looks,
  • state of affair,
  • out looks,
  • state affairs,
  • state affair,
  • out-look,
  • frame mind.
  • urgent (noun)
  • every minute counts,
  • on the front burner,
  • it's now or never,
  • as a matter of urgency/priority.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • finite,
  • flatly,
  • continuous,
  • intransitive,
  • transitive,
  • non-finite,
  • voluble,
  • bantering,
  • colloquial,
  • ergative,
  • impersonal,
  • stative,
  • windy,
  • shouty,
  • sing,
  • future,
  • Gibbering,
  • imperfect,
  • Brokenly,
  • causative.
  •
  • cadence,
  • emergent,
  • well-spoken,
  • singular,
  • reflexive,
  • modal,
  • perfect.
  •
  • commitment,
  • crying,
  • twang,
  • quaver,
  • inflection,
  • definite,
  • expression.
  •
  • croak,
  • oral,
  • fluent,
  • progressive,
  • weak.
  •
  • voice.
  •
  • flat.
  •
  • break.
  • urgent
  • uppermost.

Paraphrases for Imperative:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    essential, indispensable, peremptory.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    essential, indispensable.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    absolutely, all-important, bounden, categorical, central, compelling, compulsory, critical, decisive, desperate, dire, immediate, imminent, imperious, important, incumbent, ineluctable, instrumental, integral, key, necessary, needed, overriding, overwhelming, prescriptive, restrictive, unavoidable, unconditional, must-have, much-needed.
  • Proper noun, singular
    priorities.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    commitment, compulsory, demand, important, key, must, necessary, obligation, precept, precondition, priority, unavoidable, urgency, dictates.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    crucial, fundamental, inescapable, paramount, pivotal, prerequisite, pressing, requirement, vital, indispensible.
  • Proper noun, singular
    requirements.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    commandment, crucial, fundamental, inevitability, necessity, prerequisite, requirement.

Hyponym for Imperative:

• n.

  • act
    responsibility, duty, obligation.
  • linkdef
    mood, modality, mode.