Adjective imperative has 2 senses
- imperative - requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"
Antonyms: beseeching, adjuratory, appealing, imploring, importunate, pleading, mendicant, petitionary, precatory, precative, suppliant, supplicant, supplicatory
- imperative - relating to verbs in the imperative mood
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Noun imperative has 2 senses
- imperative mood, imperative, jussive mood - a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
--1 is a kind of mood, mode, modality
- imperative - some duty that is essential and urgent
--2 is a kind of duty, responsibility, obligation
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