imperative

Meanings

Adjective

• Essential; crucial; extremely important.
• Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
• Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
• Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.

Noun

• The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
• A verb in imperative mood.
• An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.

Related

Similar words

• required

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin imperātīvus.