imperative adjective. of vital importance; crucial: immediate action was | [with imperative clause] it is imperative that standards are maintained. giving an authoritative command; peremptory: the bell pealed again, a final imperative call. [GRAMMAR] denoting the mood of a verb that expresses a command or exhortation, as in come here! noun. an essential or urgent thing: free movement of labour was an economic imperative. a factor or influence making something necessary: the biological imperatives which guide male and female behaviour. [GRAMMAR] a verb or phrase in the imperative mood. (the imperative) the imperative mood. <DERIVATIVES> imperatival imperatively adjective. adverb. noun. <ORIGIN> late Middle English (as a grammatical term): from Late Latin imperativus (literally ‘specially ordered’, translating Greek from imperare enklisis prostatikē ‘imperative mood’), ‘to from in- + parare command’, ‘towards’ ‘make ready’. <ETYMOLOGY> from the Latin 1st-and-2nd-declension adjective, which means to ‘impĕrātīva, impĕrātīvus, impĕrātīvum,’ ‘pertaining the the From the Latin 1st-conjugation verb, command;’ ‘of command.’ which means ‘imperō, imperāre, imperāvī, imperātum,’ ‘to command,’ and the Latin 1st-and-2nd-declension ‘to order,’ adjectival suffix ‘-īva, -īvum,’ which means From the ‘of,’ ‘concerning,’ ‘pertaining to.’ Latin which expresses the concept of and the prefix ‘in-’ ‘unto,’ ‘toward,’ Latin 1st-conjugation verb, which means ‘parō, parāre, parāvī, parātum,’ The etymological sense, therefore, of the ‘to make ready,’ ‘to prepare.’ English adjective, the ‘imperative’ is: ‘concerning command;’ ‘pertaining to the the the command;’ ‘of command;’ ‘concerning order;’ ‘pertaining to the the the making order;’ ‘of order;’ ‘concerning ready of;’ ‘pertaining to the making the making etc. ready of;’ ‘of ready of;’
imperative adjective. of vital importance; crucial: immediate action was imperative | [with clause] it is imperative that standards are maintained. giving an authoritative command; peremptory: the bell pealed again, a final imperative call. [GRAMMAR] denoting the mood of a verb that expresses a command or exhortation, as in come here! noun. an essential or urgent thing: free movement of labour was an economic imperative. a factor or influence making something necessary: the biological imperatives which guide male and female behaviour. [GRAMMAR] a verb or phrase in the imperative mood. (the imperative) the imperative mood. <DERIVATIVES> imperatival adjective. imperatively adverb. noun. <ORIGIN> late Middle English (as a grammatical term): from Late Latin imperativus (literally ‘specially ordered’, translating Greek prostatikē enklisis ‘imperative mood’), from imperare ‘to command’, from in- ‘towards’ + parare ‘make ready’. <ETYMOLOGY> from the Latin 1st-and-2nd-declension adjective, ‘impĕrātīva, impĕrātīvus, impĕrātīvum,’ which means ‘pertaining to the command;’ ‘of the command.’ From the Latin 1st-conjugation verb, ‘imperō, imperāre, imperāvī, imperātum,’ which means ‘to command,’ ‘to order,’ and the Latin 1st-and-2nd-declension adjectival suffix ‘-īva, -īvum,’ which means ‘of,’ ‘concerning,’ ‘pertaining to.’ From the Latin prefix ‘in-’ which expresses the concept of ‘unto,’ ‘toward,’ and the Latin 1st-conjugation verb, ‘parō, parāre, parāvī, parātum,’ which means ‘to make ready,’ ‘to prepare.’ The etymological sense, therefore, of the English adjective, ‘imperative’ is: ‘concerning the command;’ ‘pertaining to the command;’ ‘of the command;’ ‘concerning the order;’ ‘pertaining to the order;’ ‘of the order;’ ‘concerning the making ready of;’ ‘pertaining to the making ready of;’ ‘of the making ready of;’ etc.
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