imperative

imperative
adj
1. inescapable, unavoidable, compulsory, mandatory, obligatory, binding, prescriptive; requisite, required, called-for, in demand, needful, needed; necessary, vital, indispensable, essential, of the essence; compelling, pressing, urgent, exigent, high-priority, high-pressure.
2. commanding, mandating, instructive, prescriptive, authoritative; imperious, peremptory, overbearing, domineering, lordly, magisterial, masterful; authoritarian, dogmatic, arbitrary, despotic, dictatorial, tyrannical.
n
3. command, commandment, order, dictate, bidding, behest, Inf. word, Inf. say-so; direction, injunction, instruction, precept, prescription, mandate.
4. obligation, duty, charge, responsibility, liability, onus, burden.
5. dire necessity, urgent need, urgency, exigency, matter of life and death.

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  • Imperative — Im*per a*tive, n. (Gram.) The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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