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Definition: Imperative |
ImperativeAdjective1. Requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative". 2. (grammar) relating to verbs in the imperative mood. Noun1. A mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior. 2. Some duty that is essential and urgent. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "imperative" was first used: sometime around 1450. (references) |
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Many languages have the concept of grammatical mood, which describes the relation of the verb to reality or intent in speaking. Many languages express distinctions of mood by changing (inflecting) the form of the verb. Because Modern English does not have all of the moods described below and has a very simplified system of verb inflection as well, it is not straightforward to explain the moods in this language. Note too that the exact sense of the moods differ from language to language.Possible moods include indicative, imperative, subjunctive, injunctive, negative and optative. There are other moods too. Some Uralic Samoyedic languages have over ten moods.
Grammatical mood should not be confused with grammatical case.
Indicative Mood
The indicative mood express facts and opinions. It is the most commonly used mood and is found in all languages. Example: "Paul is reading".
Imperative Mood
The imperative mood expresses commands, direct requests, prohibitions. In many circumstances, directly using the imperative mood seems blunt or even rude, so use with care. Example: "Paul, read that book".
Subjunctive Mood
The subjunctive mood has several uses in dependent clauses. Examples include discussing hypothetical or unlikely events, expressing opinions or emotions, or making polite requests (the exact scope is language-specific). It is also called the conditional mood. A subjunctive mood exists in English but many native English speakers have not mastered it. Example: "I suggested that Paul read the book". Paul is not in fact reading the book. Contrast this with the sentence "Paul reads the book", where the verb read has the third person singular ending.
The subjunctive mood figures prominently in the grammar of the Romance languages, which require this mood for certain types of dependent clauses. This point commonly causes difficulty for English speakers learning these languages.
Negative Mood
The negative mood expresses a negated action. In most languages, this is not distinct mood; negativity is expressed by adding a particle before (as in Russian), after (as in archaic or dialectic English: "Thou remembrest not?"), or both (as in French or Afrikaans: "Je ne sais pas.".) Standard English brings in a helper verb, to do usually, and then adds not after it: "I did not go there".
Optative Mood
The optative mood expresses hopes or wishes and has other uses that may overlap with the subjunctive mood. Few languages have an optative as a distinct mood; Ancient Greek and Sanskrit are two that do. Example: an ancient Greek might say "Would that Paul would read more!" with the words would that expressed by the placing the verb read in the optative mood.
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- Imperative programming, as opposed to functional programming, is a sort of programming employing side-effect as central execution feature. - see imperative programming
- The imperative mood is a grammatical mood
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Written by Stan Seibert, Modifed by Wikipedia contributors, published by Wikimedia.In computer science, imperative programming, as opposed to declarative programming, is a programming style that describes computation in terms of a program state and statements that change the program state. In much the same way as the imperative mood in natural languages expresses commands to take action, imperative programs are a sequence of commands for the computer to perform. The hardware implementation of almost all computers is imperative; nearly all computer hardware is designed to execute machine code, which is native to the computer, written in the imperative style. From this low-level perspective, the program state is defined by the contents of memory, and the statements are instructions in the native machine language of the computer. Higher-level imperative languages use variables and more complex statements, but still follow the same paradigm. Recipes and process checklists, while not computer programs, are also familiar concepts that are similar in style to imperative programming; each step is an instruction, and the physical world holds the state. Since the basic ideas of imperative programming are both conceptually familiar and directly embodied in the hardware, most computer languages are in the imperative style.
Most high-level languages support four basic types of statements: assignment, looping, conditional branching, and unconditional branching. Assignment statements, in general, perform an operation on information located in memory and store the results in memory for later use. High-level imperative languages, in addition, permit the evaluation of complex expressions, which may consist of a combination of arithmetic operations and function evaluations, and the assignment of the resulting value to memory. Looping statements allow a sequence of statements to be executed multiple times. Loops can either execute the statements they contain a predefined number of times, or they can execute them repeatedly until some condition changes. Conditional branching statements allow a block of statements to be executed only if some condition is met. Otherwise, the statements are skipped and the execution sequence continues from the statement following the block. Unconditional branching statements allow the execution sequence to be transferred to some other part of the program. These include the jump, called "goto" in many languages, and the subprogram, or procedure, call.
The earliest imperative languages were the machine languages of the original computers. In these languages, instructions were very simple, which made hardware implementation easier, but hindered the creation of complex programs. FORTRAN, developed by John Backus at IBM starting in 1954, was the first major programming language to remove the obstacles presented by machine code in the creation of complex programs. FORTRAN was a compiled language that allowed named variables, complex expressions, subprograms, and many other features now common in imperative languages. The next two decades saw the development of a number of other major high-level imperative programming languages. In the late 1950s and 1960s, ALGOL was developed in order to allow mathematical algorithms to be more easily expressed. COBOL (1960) and BASIC (1964) were both attempts to make programming syntax look more like English. In the 1970s, Pascal was developed by Niklaus Wirth, and C was created by Dennis Ritchie while he was working at Bell Laboratories. Wirth went on to design Modula-2, Modula-3, and Oberon. For the needs of the United States Department of Defense, Jean Ichbiah and a team at Honeywell began designing Ada in 1974, a language which focuses on secure programming aspects, but did not complete the specification until 1983.
The 1980s saw a rapid growth in interest in object-oriented programming. These languages were imperative in style, but added features to support objects. The last two decades of the 20th century saw the development of a considerable number of such programming languages. Smalltalk-80, originally conceived by Alan Kay in 1969, was released in 1980 by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Drawing from Smalltalk's concepts, Bjarne Stroustrup designed an object-oriented extension of the C language called C++, which was first implemented in 1985. In the late 1980s and 1990s, the notable imperative languages drawing on object-oriented concepts were Perl, released by Larry Wall in 1987; Python, released by Guido van Rossum in 1990; and Java, first released by Sun Microsystems in 1996.
Imperative programming languages stand in contrast to other types of languages, such as functional and logical programming languages. Functional programming languages, such as Haskell, are not a sequence of statements and have no global state like imperative languages do. Logical programming languages, like Prolog, are often thought of as defining "what" is to be computed, rather than "how" the computation is to take place, as an imperative programming language does.
See also: procedural programming language
For Further Reading
- Pratt, Terrence W. and Marvin V. Zelkowitz. Programming Languages: Design and Implementation. 3rd ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1996.
- Sebesta, Robert W. Concepts of Programming Languages. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1996.
History
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- 2001: Published by Nupedia, Written by Stan Seibert, reviewed and approved by the Computers group; editor, Michael Witbrock ; lead reviewer, Nancy Tinkham ; lead copyeditors, Ruth Ifcher and Hillary Brown, Entitled Imperative programming
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Procedural programming is a method (a programming paradigm) of computer programming based upon the concept of the unit and scope (the data viewing range of an executable code statement). A procedural program is composed of one or more units or modules--either user coded or provided in a code library; each module is composed of one or more procedures, also called a function, routine, subroutine, or method, depending on programming language. It is possible for a procedural program to have multiple levels or scopes, with procedures defined inside other procedures. Each scope can contain variables which cannot be seen in outer scopes.
- This article should be merged with imperative programming.
Procedural programming offers many benefits over simple sequential programming: Procedural programming code is easier to read and more maintainable; Procedural code is more flexible; Procedural programming allows for the easier practice of good program design.
see: Programming language, list of programming languages, Procedural programming language
External links
- Procedural programming languages
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Synonyms: ImperativeSynonyms: imperative mood (n), jussive mood (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: beseeching (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Duty | Noun: duty, what ought to be done, moral obligation, accountableness, liability, onus, responsibility; bounden duty, imperative duty; call, call of duty; accountability. |
Adjective: obligatory, binding; imperative, peremptory; stringent; (severe); behooving; Verb: incumbent on, chargeable on; under obligation; obliged by, bound by, tied by; saddled with. | |
Government | Ruling; Verb: regnant, gubernatorial; imperious; authoritative, executive, administrative, clothed with authority, official, departmental, ex officio, imperative, peremptory, overruling, absolute; hegemonic, hegemonical; authorized; (due). |
Requirement | Adjective: required; Verb: requisite, needful, necessary, imperative, essential, indispensable, prerequisite; called for; in demand, in request. |
Severity | Adjective: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell, relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement; (ruthless) a; cruel; (malevolent); haughty, arrogant; precisian. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Imperative |
| English words defined with "imperative": bugger off, buzz off ♦ cheese ♦ get ♦ hark, harken, Haw, hearken ♦ Imperatival, imperatively, Imperatorial, Imperatory ♦ peremptorily ♦ scram, stet ♦ To hear well ♦ Vide. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "imperative": After the Imperative ♦ DACTL, declarative language ♦ FX-87 ♦ imperative language ♦ JPL ♦ manager, public utility, rural ♦ Object-Oriented Turing ♦ PROgrammed Graph REwriting Systems ♦ RSL ♦ SUPERINTENDENT, ELECTRIC POWER. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "imperative": Volti. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Compadres, it is imperative that we crush the freedom fighters before the start of the rainy season (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) First, you have to get back at Kent, it's a moral imperative. (Real Genius; writing credit: Neal Israel; Pat Proft) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Zero Imperative (1994) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Genetic counseling is imperative. (references) | |
Proper diagnosis and active case finding are imperative. (references) | ||
In the future, it will be imperative that markedly improved techniques be applied in each clinical study. (references) | ||
Business | Gen. Sheikh Mohammed feels that the e-government initiative is imperative for Dubai to continue to thrive economically. (references) | |
The U.K. market offers over 200 brands of vitamins alone and countless ranges of mineral, herbal, and other nutritional supplements, making product positioning imperative. (references) | ||
It is imperative for China to stop application and production of highly-toxic pesticides, especially organo-phosphorous biocides, since the high-toxic pesticides take up about 36 percent of the country's total. (references) | ||
Economic History | Indonesia | The economic crisis made continued private financing imperative but problematic. (references) |
Moldova | The Government's latest imperative is to fight poverty with the help of international donors. (references) | |
Qatar | Consolidation of several products in a shipment is often imperative because of the size of the market. (references) | |
Trade | India | In such a case it is imperative to enter into a legal contract and receive RBI approval. (references) |
Travel | Korea | Nonetheless, it is still very Korean and it is imperative that any American doing business in Korea realizes that Seoul is not Los Angeles (even though the latter, in fact, has a sizeable Korean community). (references) |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Andrew Jackson | 1829-1837 | With those Governments upon which our citizens have valid and accumulating claims, scarcely an advance toward a settlement of them is made, owing mainly to their distracted state or to the pressure of imperative domestic questions. |
James Buchanan | 1857-1861 | But be this as it may, it is the imperative and indispensable duty of the Government of the United States to secure to every resident inhabitant the free and independent expression of his opinion by his vote. |
Benjamin Harrison | 1889-1893 | Our revenue should be ample to meet the ordinary annual demands upon our Treasury, with a sufficient margin for those extraordinary but scarcely less imperative demands which arise now and then. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | At the same time it is imperative that we relieve those who have already done their duty, and that we relieve them as fast as we can. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | We recognize the imperative need for this development. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Therefore, by holding down the budgetary cost of existing programs to keep within the limitations I have set, it is both possible and imperative to adopt other new measures that we cannot afford to postpone. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | In any event, I think it is imperative that we do all that we responsibly can to resist inflation while maintaining our prosperity. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | It's imperative that we in government do our part. |
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| "Imperative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 57.25% of the time. "Imperative" is used about 414 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 57.25% | 237 | 19,467 |
| Noun (singular) | 42.75% | 177 | 23,322 |
| Total | 100.00% | 414 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "imperative": categorical imperative ♦ hypothetical imperative ♦ imperative language ♦ imperative macro instruction ♦ imperative mood ♦ non imperative language. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "imperative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i domosdoshëm (imperatival, indispensable, necessary, needful, obligate, prerequisite), urgjent (clamant, exigent, express, instant, pressing, urgent), urdhërues (commanding, prescriptive), urdhërore, thelbësor (Cardinal, elemental, essential, mattery, overriding, radical, vital). (various references) | |
Arabic | ملح (corn, cure, demanding, exigent, imperious, importunate, importune, insistent, insisting, interfering, obsessive, pertinacious, pressing, salt, stringent, urgent), واجب (assignment, charge, duty, must, obligation, office, onus, ought, task, trust), حقيقة ملحة, ضيقة الام, صيغة الأمر, جملة أمرية, إلزامي (compulsory, involuntary, mandatary), أمري (magisterial, peremptory), أساسي (absolute, alkaline, basal, base, capital, cardinal, close, constitutional, formal, fundamental, indispensable, innate, inward, leading, main, major, material, momentous, nub, organic, overriding, paramount, piece de resistance, primal, primary, principal, radical, right, staple, substantial, ultimate, underling), دال على أمر. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | наложителен, заповеднически (dogmatic, imperious, magisterial, overbearing, peremptory), заповед (bidding, command, do, injunction, mandate, order, ordinance, precept, word), безапелационен (peremptory), повелително наклонение (jussive), повелителен (imperatival, imperious, jussive), императив. (various references) | |
Chinese | 必要 (Necessary, Necessities, Necessity, Needful). (various references) | |
Czech | imperativní, imperativ, velitelský (imperious), rozkazovací (imperatival), nutný (essential, indispensable, inescapable, necessary, needful, perquisite, requisite, urgent), nezbytný (basic, essential, indispensable, inevitable, necessary, needful, urgent, vital), naléhavý (burning, dire, emergent, exhortative, exigent, immediate, importunate, insistent, instant, of great importance, pressing, stringent, urgent), kategorický (categorical, downright, flat), autoritativní (authoritative, definitive, imperious, magisterial). (various references) | |
Danish | impulsiv handling (imperative act, impulsive act), imperativt sprog (imperative language, procedural language, procedure-orientated language, procedure-oriented language), imperativ makroordre (imperative macro instruction), imperativ akustisk hallucination (imperative hallucination), ikke-algoritmisk sprog (less procedural language, non imperative language, non-procedural language), bydende nødvendigt hensyn til væsentlige samfundsinteresser (imperative reason of overriding public interest), algoritmisk sprog (imperative language, procedural language, procedure-orientated language, procedure-oriented language), absolut krav om forbrugerbeskyttelse (imperative need to protect the consumer). (various references) | |
Dutch | impulsieve handeling (imperative act, impulsive act), imperatieve taal (imperative language, procedural language, procedure-orientated language, procedure-oriented language), imperatieve macro (imperative macro instruction), zwaarwegend maatschappelijk belang (imperative reason of overriding public interest), procedurele taal (imperative language, procedural language, procedure-orientated language, procedure-oriented language), procedure-georienteerde taal (imperative language, procedural language, procedure-orientated language, procedure-oriented language), non-procedurele taal (less procedural language, non imperative language, non-procedural language), niet-procedurele taal (less procedural language, non imperative language, non-procedural language), niet-imperatieve taal (less procedural language, non imperative language, non-procedural language), gebiedende eis van het consumentenbelang (imperative need to protect the consumer), dwingende reden van groot openbaar belang (imperative reason of overriding public interest), daad,verricht tgv een ongewilde en uit het onderbewustzijn opgekomen aandrang (imperative act, impulsive act). (various references) | |
Farsi | حتمی (Categorical, Cocksure, Cretain, Emergence, Emergency, Imminent, Indispensable, Very), ضروری (Immediate, Indispensable, Must, Necessary, Needful, Obligate, Urgent), امری , الزام اور (Obligatory), دستوری (Grammatical, Ministry). (various references) | |
Finnish | imperatiivi, välttämätön (essential, indispensable, inevitable, necessary, unavoidable), pakottava (compulsive), käskytapa. (various references) | |
French | impérieux (imperious), impératif, urgent (imperious), assujettissant. (various references) | |
German | zwingend (bludgeoning, coercible, coercing, coercive, cogent, cogently, compellable, compelling, compellingly, compulsive, compulsively, conclusive, constraining, exigent, forcible, forcibly, forcing, mandatory, necessary, unassailable, urgent), unbedingte, unbedingt (absolute, absolutely, implicit, implicitly, necessarily, really, scrupulous, unconditional, unconditioned, unreserved), Befehlsform. (various references) | |
Greek | προστακτικόσ (mandatory, peremptory), προστακτική έγκλιση, προστακτική έγγλισισ, προστακτική, επιτακτικόσ (authoritative, mandatory, peremptory). (various references) | |
Hebrew | פקודה (behest, command, fiat, order, ordinance), הכרחי (essential, indispensable, mandatory, must, necessary, obligatory, vital), צו (behest, command, decree, edict, fiat, order, ordinance, prescription, say so), נחוץ (essential, immediate, necessary, needed, needful, required, requisite, urgent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | parancsoló (assertiveness, authoritative, compelling, dictatorial, domineering, imperatival, imperatorial, imperious, magisterial), szükségszerű (connotation, inevitable, necessary, obligate), sürgető (compelling, importunate, pressing), kényszerítő (coercive, compelling, imperatorial), imperativus, felszólító mód (imperative mood), ellentmondást nem tűrő (assertive, bossy, dogmatic, imperatorial, magisterial, peremptory, self-assertive), elkerülhetetlen (can't be helped, fated, inescapable, inevitable, necessary, unavoidable). (various references) | |
Italian | imperioso (authoritative, imperious, masterful, overbearing), imperativo (mandatory), perentorio (final, peremptory), obbligo (duty, obligation, onus), legante (binder, binding, bond, ligating, urgent). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 至上命令 (categorical imperative, overriding necessity), 仮言的命令 (hypothetical imperative), 命令法 (imperative mood), 命令法 (imperative mood), 命令文 (imperative sentence), 命令形 (imperative mood). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | しじょうめいれい (categorical imperative, overriding necessity), かげんてきめいれい (hypothetical imperative), めいれいぶん (imperative sentence), めいれいほう (imperative mood), めいれいけい (imperative mood). (various references) | |
Korean | 긴급한 (urgent). (various references) | |
Manx | oardreilagh (ordinand, ruler, systematic). (various references) | |
Norwegian | imperativ, myndig (adult, full-grown, grown-up), absolutt nødvendig (essential). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | imperativeay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | imperativo (imperatival, jussive, urgent). (various references) | |
Romanian | imperios (imperious, indispensable, urgent, urgently), imperativ (imperatival, necessity), poruncitor (authoritative, imperatively, imperious, masterful, overbearing, overbearingly, peremptory), necesar (essential, good, necessary, needed, needful, prerequisite, required, requisite), de stãpân. (various references) | |
Russian | императивный. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | imperativ, zapovedna reč, važan (consequential, important, material, momentous, pertinent, serious, weighty), hitan (emergency, exigent, express, fleet, hasty, must, pressing, rush, urgent). (various references) | |
Spanish | indispensable (essential, indispensable, necessary, requisite), imperioso (imperious, lordly, masterful, overbearing, overriding), imperativo (mandatory), urgente (express, immediate, pressing, urgent), perentorio (assertive, final, peremptory), orden (arrangement, array, bidding, character, command, commandment, count, decision, decree, dictation, direction, discipline, disposal, disposition, field, force, function, instruction, issue, medal, nature, order, orderliness, sequence, warrant, word, writ), esencial (esentially, essential, necessary, pivot, pivotal, ultimate, vital), apremiante (desperate, eager, emergency, immediate, urgent). (various references) | |
Swedish | tvingande (cogent, compelling, exigent, forcing, irresistible, urgent). (various references) | |
Turkish | zorunluluk (burden, essentiality, exigence, exigency, incumbency, indispensability, necessity, obligation, ought, urgency), zorunlu (bound, bound to, coercible, compulsory, derigueur, enforced, essential, forced, forcedly, imperious, incumbent, indispensable, irremissible, mandatory, necessary, obligatory, obliged, requisite, unavoidable, urgent), mecburi (coercible, compulsory, enforced, enforcedly, forced, forcedly, imperious, indispensable, obligatory), gerekli (essential, indispensable, material, necessary, needful, obligatory, ought, requisite, wanted), emreden (commanding, prescriptive), emir kipi, emir belirten (imperatival), emir (ameer, amir, behest, bidding, charge, command, commandment, decree, dictate, dictation, direction, disposal, disposition, emir, fiat, imperatival, jussive, mandate, order, precept, prescription, ukase, word, word of command), buyurucu (authoritative, imperious, masterful, peremptory). (various references) | |
Turkmen | hцkman (mandatory, necessary). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | імперативний (peremptory), імператив, владний (arbitrary, authoritarian, authoritative, dictatorial, high and mighty, high handed, imperious, magisterial, masterful, overbearing), настійний (exacting, imperious, instant). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | mệnh lệnh điều đòi hỏi phải chú ý, khẩn thiết bắt buộc, cấp bách (burning, exigent, imperious, instant, pressing, rush), cưỡng chế có tính chất sai khiến, cưỡng bách (obligatory), điều đòi hỏi phải hành động, động tà ở lối mệnh lệnh. (various references) | |
Wolof | jàddal (turn imperative). (various references) | |
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| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | imperativus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "imperative": imperatively, imperativeness, imperativenesses, imperatives. (additional references) | |
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"Imperative" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emperative, immparative, imparative, imperitive, impervative, impreitive. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "imperative" (pronounced i'mpe"rutiv) |
| 8 | -m p e" r u t i v | comparative. |
| 6 | -e" r u t i v | narrative. |
| 5 | -r u t i v | commemorative, curative, decorative, demonstrative, illustrative, interpretive, lucrative, nutritive, pejorative, restorative, secretive. |
| 4 | -u t i v | accusative, acquisitive, additive, affirmative, alliterative, alternative, anticompetitive, argumentative, causative, cognitive, communicative, competitive, consecutive, conservative, consultative, contemplative, cumulative, definitive, degenerative, derivative, diminutive, dispositive, duplicative, evocative, executive, expletive, exploitative, Federative, figurative, fixative, formative, fugitive, generative, hypersensitive, imaginative, indicative, infinitive, informative, initiative, inoperative, inquisitive, insensitive, intuitive, laxative, negative, neoconservative, noncompetitive, noncumulative, nonexecutive, normative, operative, palliative, participative, positive, prerogative, preservative, preventative, primitive, prohibitive, provocative, punitive, putative, recuperative, relative, remunerative, rep, repetitive, representative, sedative, sensitive, speculative, superlative, talkative, tentative, ultraconservative, uncompetitive, uncooperative, unimaginative, uninformative, unrepresentative, vituperative. |
| 3 | -t i v | accommodative, abortive, accumulative, active, adaptive, addictive, adjective, administrative, adoptive, affective, appointive, appreciative, assaultive, assertive, attentive, attractive, authoritative, automotive, captive, collaborative, collective, combative, conductive, congestive, connective, constructive, contraceptive, cooperative, corrective, corruptive, counterproductive, creative, deceptive, defective, deliberative, descriptive, destructive, detective, digestive, dilutive, directive, disincentive, disparages, disruptive, dissipative, distinctive, distributive, effective, elective, elucidative, eruptive, exhaustive, exploitive, facultative, festive, furtive, hyperactive, imitative, inactive, inattentive, incentive, ineffective, infective, injunctive, innovative, instinctive, instructive, interactive, introspective, invective, inventive, investigative, irrespective, iterative, legislative, locomotive, manipulative, meditative, motive, native, nonautomotive, nonnative, nonproductive, objective, obstructive, octave, overactive, perceptive, perspective, photoconductive, plaintive, predictive, preemptive, presumptive, preventive, proactive, probative, productive, prognosticative, projective, prospective, protective, qualitative, quantitative, radioactive, reactive, receptive, reconstructive, redemptive, redistributive, reflective, refractive, regulative, rehabilitative, reproductive, respective, restive, restrictive, retroactive, retrospective, seductive, selective, stimulative, subjective, substantive, suggestive, superconductive, supportive, unattractive, unproductive, unreceptive, vegetative, vindictive. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-i-m-p-r-t-v" | |
-3 letters: airtime, emerita, emeriti, emirate, emptier, imperia, meatier, peatier, primate, private, tempera, vampire, viremia, vitamer. | |
-4 letters: ampere, armpit, empire, epimer, imaret, impair, impart, metepa, metier, mitier, pareve, pereia, permit, pirate, pitier, premie, privet, reemit, remate, repave, repeat, retape, reteam, retime, revamp, tamper, temper, trivia, vamper, verite. | |
-5 letters: aerie, aimer, aiver, ameer, apter, arete, armet. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-i-m-p-r-t-v" | |
+1 letter: imperatives, semiprivate. | |
+2 letters: imperatively. | |
+3 letters: premeditative. | |
+4 letters: imperativeness. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Quotations: Speeches 8. Usage Frequency | 9. Expressions 10. Expressions: Internet 11. Translations: Modern 12. Translations: Ancient | 13. Derivations 14. Rhymes 15. Anagrams 16. Bibliography |
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