imperative
See also: impérative
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Lua error: The template Template:PIE root does not use the parameter(s):2=perPlease see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.
Borrowed from Latin imperātīvus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
imperative (comparative more imperative, superlative most imperative)
- Essential; crucial; extremely important.
- It is imperative that you come here right now.
- 2019, Con Man Games, SmashGames, quoting Felix, Kindergarten 2, SmashGames:
- Give this document to Ozzy. It's imperative that he reads and understands it. Got it?
- (grammar) Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
- (computing theory) Having a semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
- Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
- imperative orders
- (Can we date this quote by Bishop Hall and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
- The suits of kings are imperative.
Translations
essential
|
grammar: of, or relating to the imperative mood
|
computing: having semantics that incorporates mutable variables
|
authoritatively or absolutely directive
|
Noun
imperative (countable and uncountable, plural imperatives)
- (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
- The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative.
- (countable, grammar) A verb in imperative mood.
- (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
- Visiting Berlin is an imperative.
- 2014 March 1, Rupert Christiansen, “English translations rarely sing”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R19:
- Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fidelity to the original sense with what is vocally viable, they tend to resort to a genteel fustian which lacks either poetic resonance or demotic realism, adding to a sense of artificiality rather than enhancing credibility.
Synonyms
- (grammatical mood) imperative mood
- required
Coordinate terms
- (in grammar): assertoric, interrogative
Derived terms
- categorical imperative
- first imperative (Latin grammar)
- moral imperative
- second imperative (Latin grammar)
Translations
imperative mood — see imperative mood
verb in imperative
|
essential action
|
Italian
Adjective
imperative f pl
- (deprecated template usage) Feminine plural of adjective imperativo.
Anagrams
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
Lua error: The template Template:PIE root does not use the parameter(s):2=perPlease see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.
From imperātīvus (“commanded”), from imperō (“command, order”), from im- (form of in) + parō (“prepare, arrange; intend”).
Adverb
imperātīvē (not comparable)
- In an imperative manner, imperatively.
Related terms
References
- “imperative”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- imperative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 4-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English adjectives
- English terms with usage examples
- English terms with quotations
- en:Grammar
- en:Theory of computing
- Requests for date/Bishop Hall
- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Directives
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian adjective forms
- Italian adjective feminine forms
- Italian adjective plural forms
- Latin lemmas
- Latin adverbs
- Latin uncomparable adverbs