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

• Independent

  • 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.
  • Proper noun, singular
    priorities.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    dictates, necessary, obligation, must, urgency, precondition, important, precept, key, demand, compulsory, commitment, priority, unavoidable.

• Other Related

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

Antonyms for Imperative:

• adj.

  • all
    beseeching.
  • necessary
    uncritical, inessential, free, optional, unrestrained, secondary, nonessential, unimportant, discretionary, voluntary, unnecessary, trivial, insignificant.
  • 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.

Hyponym for Imperative:

• n.

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