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imperative 音標拼音: [ɪmp'ɛrətɪv] n. 命令,誡命,需要,規則,祈使語氣
a. 命令式的,急需的,勢在必行的,強制的 命令,誡命,需要,規則,祈使語氣命令式的,急需的,勢在必行的,強制的 imperative*命令式 imperative adj 1: requiring attention or action; " as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; " requests that grew more and more imperative" [ ant: { beseeching}, { imploring}, { pleading}] 2: relating to verbs in the imperative mood n 1: a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener' s behavior [ synonym: { imperative mood}, { imperative}, { jussive mood}, { imperative form}] 2: some duty that is essential and urgentImperative \ Im* per" a* tive\, n. ( Gram.) The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood. [ 1913 Webster]
Imperative \ Im* per" a* tive\, a. [ L. imperativus, fr. imperare to command; pref. im- in parare to make ready, prepare: cf. F. imp[' e] ratif. See { Perade}, and cf. { Empire}.] 1. Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders. [ 1913 Webster] The suit of kings are imperative. -- Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order. [ 1913 Webster] 3. ( Gram.) Expressive of command, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood. [ 1913 Webster] 256 Moby Thesaurus words for " imperative": absolute, absolutist, absolutistic, acid, acute, allegiance, arbitrary, aristocratic, arrogant, ascendant, assigned task, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, basic, behest, bidding, binding, biting, bossy, bounden duty, burden, burning, business, call of duty, canon, case of need, charge, choiceless, claimed, clamant, clamorous, clothed with authority, coactive, code, command, commanding, commandment, commitment, compelling, competent, compulsatory, compulsive, compulsory, conclusive, conditional, consequential, considerable, constraining, controlling, convention, corrosive, critical, crucial, crying, cutting, de rigueur, decisive, decretal, decretive, decretory, dedication, deference, demanded, despotic, devoir, devotion, dictate, dictated, dictating, dictation, dictatorial, dictum, dire necessity, direct order, directive, dogmatic, dominant, domineering, driving, duly constituted, duties and responsibilities, duty, effective, eminent, empowered, entailed, essential, ethics, ex officio, exigence, exigency, exigent, fealty, feudal, final, forceful, forcible, form, formula, fundamental, general principle, golden rule, governing, great, grinding, guideline, guiding principle, gutsy, hard- and- fast, harsh, hegemonic, hegemonistic, hest, high- handed, high- pressure, high- priority, homage, immediacy, imperativeness, imperial, imperious, important, importunate, imposed, impressive, incisive, indicative, indispensable, inevitable, influential, insistent, instant, instructive, involuntary, irresistible, irrevocable, jussive, law, leading, line of duty, lordly, loyalty, magisterial, magistral, mandated, mandating, mandatory, masterful, matter of necessity, maxim, mighty, mission, mitzvah, mode, momentous, monocratic, mood, moral, mordant, must, necessary, necessitous, nervous, norm, obligating, obligation, obligative, obligatory, official, onus, oppressive, optative, order, ordering, ordinance, ought, overbearing, overruling, penetrating, peremptory, permissive, piercing, pivotal, place, pleasure, poignant, potent, potential, powerful, preceptive, predicament, preeminent, prerequisite, prescript, prescriptive, pressing, pressingness, pressure, prestigious, principium, principle, prominent, puissant, punchy, ranking, regulation, repressive, required, requisite, respect, restraining, rubric, rule, ruling, say- so, self- imposed duty, senior, sensational, settled principle, severe, sinewed, sinewy, slashing, special order, standard, stern, strict, striking, strong, subjunctive, substantial, superior, suppressive, supreme, telling, tenet, totalitarian, trenchant, tyrannical, tyrannous, ultimate, urgency, urgent, urgent need, vigorous, vital, weighty, will, without appeal, without choice, word, word of command, working principle, working rule
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