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Definition of Imperative
Imperative
Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.

Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.

Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.

The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.

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Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Henry Miller

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
Immanuel Kant

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
H. G. Wells

Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
E. O. Wilson

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.
Henry A. Kissinger

Until the last great war, a general expectation of material improvement was an idea peculiar to Western man. Now war and its aftermath have made economic and social progress a political imperative in every quarter of the globe.
Lester B. Pearson

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
E. B. White

Of course, it's imperative that we stabilize Iraq and quickly reduce our armed role there.
David Hackworth

It seems difficult, sometimes, to believe that there was a time when sentiments now become habitual, sentiments that imply not only the original imperative of conduct, but the original metaphysic of living, were by no means altogether habitual.
Lascelles Abercrombie



Imperative Translations
imperative in German is unbedingte, unbedingt, Befehlsform, zwingend
imperative in Italian is legante


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