Word Meanings - IMPERATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood. (more info) pref. im- in + parare to make ready, prepare: cf. F. impératif. See 1. Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely

Additional info about word: IMPERATIVE

Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood. (more info) pref. im- in + parare to make ready, prepare: cf. F. impératif. See 1. Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders. The suit of kings are imperative. Bp. Hall. 2. Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPERATIVE)

• Authoritative
• Decisive
• sure
• conclusive
• authentic
• powerful
• firm
• potent
• dictatorial
• imperious
• arbitrary
• arrogant
• imperative
• dogmatic
• commanding
• Dictation
• Imperative
• domineering
• Urgent
• Pressing
• immediate
• importunate
• forcible
• strenuous
• serious
• grave
• momentous
• indeferrible

Related words: (words related to IMPERATIVE)

• SERIOUS
  1. Grave in manner or disposition; earnest; thoughtful; solemn; not light, gay, or volatile. He is always serious, yet there is about his manner a graceful ease. Macaulay. 2. Really intending what is said; being in earnest; not jesting
• CONCLUSIVELY
  In the way of conclusion; decisively; positively. Burke.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• AUTHENTICITY
  1. The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness. 2. Genuineness; the quality of being genuine or not corrupted from the original. Note: In later writers, especially those on the evidences of Christianity,
• CONCLUSIVENESS
  The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• COMMANDING
  1. Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer. 2. Fitted to impress or control; as, a commanding look or presence. 3. Exalted; overlooking; having superior strategic advantages; as, a commanding position. Syn.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• DECISIVE
  1. Having the power or quality of deciding a question or controversy; putting an end to contest or controversy; final; conclusive. "A decisive, irrevocable doom." Bates. "Decisive campaign." Macaulay. "Decisive proof." Hallam. 2. Marked
• FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
  Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
• PRESSIROSTRAL
  Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
• COMMANDATORY
  Mandatory; as, commandatory authority.
• AUTHENTIC
  Vested with all due formalities, and legally attested. (more info) L. authenticus coming from the real author, of original or firsthand authority, from Gr. sons and perh. orig. from the p. pr. of to be, root as, and meaning the one it really is.
• PRESSIVE
  Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
• IMPORTUNATE
  1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. 2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. Donne. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ness, n.
• COMMANDO
  In South Africa, a military body or command; also, sometimes, an expedition or raid; as, a commando of a hundred Boers. The war bands, called commandos, have played a great part in the . . . military history of the country. James Bryce.
• PRESSGANG
  See PRESS
• ARROGANTLY
  In an arrogant manner; with undue pride or self-importance.
• EQUIPOTENTIAL
  Having the same potential. Equipotential surface, a surface for which the potential is for all points of the surface constant. Level surfaces on the earth are equipotential.
• OMNIPOTENT
  1. Able in every respect and for every work; unlimited in ability; all-powerful; almighty; as, the Being that can create worlds must be omnipotent. God's will and pleasure and his omnipotent power. Sir T. More. 2. Having unlimited power
• HOTPRESSED
  Pressed while heat is applied. See Hotpress, v. t.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
• HOTPRESS
  To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• INCOMPRESSIBLE
  Not compressible; incapable of being reduced by force or pressure into a smaller compass or volume; resisting compression; as, many liquids and solids appear to be almost incompressible. -- In`com*press"i*ble*ness, n.
• ASSURGENT
  Ascending;
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• ENFORCIBLE
  That may be enforced.