| ADJECTIVE | all | imperative | requiring attention or action |
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| pert | imperative | relating to verbs in the imperative mood | |
| NOUN | relation | imperative, imperative mood, jussive mood, imperative form | a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior |
| act | imperative | some duty that is essential and urgent |
| Sounds | ihmpeh'rahtihv | |
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| Rhymes | abortive ... vituperative: 304 rhymes with ihv... | |
| Meaning | requiring attention or action. | |
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| Narrower | adjuratory | Containing a solemn charge or command |
| clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant | demanding attention | |
| desperate | showing extreme / extreme urgency or intensity especially because of great need or desire | |
| peremptory | not allowing contradiction or refusal | |
| pressing, urgent | Compelling immediate action | |
| strident, shrill | sharply insistent on being heard | |
| See also | assertive, self-asserting, self-assertive | aggressively self-assured |
| Opposite | beseeching, pleading, imploring | begging |
| Spanish | esencial, fundamental, imperativo, primordial | |
| Catalan | essencial, fonamental, imperatiu, primordial | |
| Nouns | imperativeness | the state of demanding notice or attention |
| Adverbs | imperatively | in an imperative and commanding manner |
| Meaning | relating to verbs in the imperative mood. | |
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| Category | grammar | The branch of linguistics that deals with syntax and morphology (and sometimes also deals with semantics) |
| Spanish | imperativo | |
| Nouns | imperative mood | a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior |
| Meaning | A mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior. | |
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| Synonyms | imperative mood, jussive mood, imperative form | |
| Broader | mood, mode, modality | Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker |
| Spanish | imperativo, modo imperativo | |
| Meaning | Some duty that is essential and urgent. | |
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| Broader | duty, responsibility, obligation | The social force that binds you to the courses of action demanded by that force |
| Spanish | imperativo | |
| Catalan | imperatiu | |
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