imperatives: význam a definice

Necessary or urgent:"It is imperative that we continue to move with speed to make housing more affordable"(Timothy Geithner). See Synonyms at urgent.

Expressing a command or plea; peremptory: requests that grew more and more imperative.

Grammar Of, relating to, or constituting the mood that expresses a command or request.

A rule, principle, or need that requires or compels certain action:"the internal tension in [military] doctrine, between the desire to prescribe a common way of fighting and the imperative of adjusting particular military actions to circumstances"(Eliot A. Cohen). A command; an order.

Grammar The imperative mood. A verb form of the imperative mood.