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Exact Match:

imperative

some duty that is essential and urgent

requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"

relating to verbs in the imperative mood

Synonyms:

• absolute,
• absolutist,
• absolutistic,
• acid,
• acute,
• allegiance,
• arbitrary,
• aristocratic,
• arrogant,
• ascendant,
• assigned task,
• authoritarian,
• authoritative,
• authorized,
• autocratic,
• basic,
• behest,
• bidding,
• binding,
• biting,
• bossy,
• bounden duty,
• burden,
• burning,
• business,
• call of duty,
• canon,
• case of need,
• charge,
• choiceless,
• claimed,
• clamant,
• clamorous,
• clothed with authority,
• coactive,
• code,
• command,
• commanding,
• commandment,
• commitment,
• compelling,
• competent,
• compulsatory,
• compulsive,
• compulsory,
• conclusive,
• conditional,
• consequential,
• considerable,
• constraining,
• controlling,
• convention,
• corrosive,
• critical,
• crucial,
• crying,
• cutting,
• de rigueur,
• decisive,
• decretal,
• decretive,
• decretory,
• dedication,
• deference,
• demanded,
• despotic,
• devoir,
• devotion,
• dictate,
• dictated,
• dictating,
• dictation,
• dictatorial,
• dictum,
• dire necessity,
• direct order,
• directive,
• dogmatic,
• dominant,
• domineering,
• driving,
• duly constituted,
• duties and responsibilities,
• duty,
• effective,
• eminent,
• empowered,
• entailed,
• essential,
• ethics,
• ex officio,
• exigence,
• exigency,
• exigent,
• fealty,
• feudal,
• final,
• forceful,
• forcible,
• form,
• formula,
• fundamental,
• general principle,
• golden rule,
• governing,
• great,
• grinding,
• guideline,
• guiding principle,
• gutsy,
• hard-and-fast,
• harsh,
• hegemonic,
• hegemonistic,
• hest,
• high-handed,
• high-pressure,
• high-priority,
• homage,
• immediacy,
• imperativeness,
• imperial,
• imperious,
• important,
• importunate,
• imposed,
• impressive,
• incisive,
• indicative,
• indispensable,
• inevitable,
• influential,
• insistent,
• instant,
• instructive,
• involuntary,
• irresistible,
• irrevocable,
• jussive,
• law,
• leading,
• line of duty,
• lordly,
• loyalty,
• magisterial,
• magistral,
• mandated,
• mandating,
• mandatory,
• masterful,
• matter of necessity,
• maxim,
• mighty,
• mission,
• mitzvah,
• mode,
• momentous,
• monocratic,
• mood,
• moral,
• mordant,
• must,
• necessary,
• necessitous,
• nervous,
• norm,
• obligating,
• obligation,
• obligative,
• obligatory,
• official,
• onus,
• oppressive,
• optative,
• order,
• ordering,
• ordinance,
• ought,
• overbearing,
• overruling,
• penetrating,
• peremptory,
• permissive,
• piercing,
• pivotal,
• place,
• pleasure,
• poignant,
• potent,
• potential,
• powerful,
• preceptive,
• predicament,
• preeminent,
• prerequisite,
• prescript,
• prescriptive,
• pressing,
• pressingness,
• pressure,
• prestigious,
• principium,
• principle,
• prominent,
• puissant,
• punchy,
• ranking,
• regulation,
• repressive,
• required,
• requisite,
• respect,
• restraining,
• rubric,
• rule,
• ruling,
• say-so,
• self-imposed duty,
• senior,
• sensational,
• settled principle,
• severe,
• sinewed,
• sinewy,
• slashing,
• special order,
• standard,
• stern,
• strict,
• striking,
• strong,
• subjunctive,
• substantial,
• superior,
• suppressive,
• supreme,
• telling,
• tenet,
• totalitarian,
• trenchant,
• tyrannical,
• tyrannous,
• ultimate,
• urgency,
• urgent,
• urgent need,
• vigorous,
• vital,
• weighty,
• will,
• without appeal,
• without choice,
• word,
• word of command,
• working principle,
• working rule