What is another word for imperative?
587 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɪmpˈɛɹətˌɪv], [ ɪmpˈɛɹətˌɪv], [ ɪ_m_p_ˈɛ_ɹ_ə_t_ˌɪ_v]
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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.
How to use "Imperative" in context?
The imperative mood is used to tell someone what to do. It is created when we use the verb "to be" followed by the direct object. For example, you might say "You need to hurry up!
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Equivalence
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Adjective
essential, indispensable, peremptory.
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Noun, singular or mass
essential, indispensable.
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Adjective
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Independent
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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.
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Proper noun, singular
priorities.
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Noun, singular or mass
commitment, compulsory, demand, important, key, must, necessary, obligation, precept, precondition, priority, unavoidable, urgency, dictates.
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Adjective
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Other Related
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Adjective
crucial, fundamental, inescapable, paramount, pivotal, prerequisite, pressing, requirement, vital, indispensible.
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Proper noun, singular
requirements.
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Noun, singular or mass
commandment, crucial, fundamental, inevitability, necessity, prerequisite, requirement.
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Adjective
Hyponym for Imperative:
n.
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act
responsibility, duty, obligation.
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act
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