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Antonyms for imperatives
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : im-per-uh-tiv |
Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpɛr ə tɪv |
- abundance
- allowance
- answer
- auxiliary
- breach
- break
- contradiction
- corruption
- countermand
- denial
- desire
- disgrace
- dishonesty
- dishonor
- disorganization
- evil
- extra
- good fortune
- immorality
- impropriety
- indecency
- indifference
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- lot
- nonessential
- opposition
- option
- permission
- plenty
- question
- recall
- refusal
- request
- reversal
- revocation
- subordination
- trivia
- veto
- wish
- wrong
Definition of imperatives
Origin :- 1520s, from Late Latin imperativus "pertaining to a command," from imperatus "commanded," past participle of imperare "to command, to requisition," from assimilated form of in- "into, in" (see in- (2)) + parare "prepare" (see pare).
- As in mandate : noun authority, order
- As in must : noun necessity, essential
- As in necessity : noun need, essentiality
- As in prerequisite : noun condition, necessity
- As in requirement/requisite : noun necessity, want
- As in state : noun condition or mode of being
- As in ethics : noun morality
- As in requirement : noun necessity
- As in rightfulness : noun ethics
- As in rightness : noun ethics
- As in command : noun directive, instruction
- As in ethics/ethic : noun moral philosophy, values
- It is demonstrated that they are both the imperatives of old verbs.
- Extract from : « Dissertation on the English Language » by Noah Webster, Jr.
- In these imperatives of Mrs. March's there was always much of the conditional.
- Extract from : « The March Family Trilogy, Complete » by William Dean Howells
- All subsequent efforts fail if the border lacks in two imperatives, good drainage and a soil that is rich but not too rich.
- Extract from : « Manual of American Grape-Growing » by U. P. Hedrick
- Human nature does not like imperatives and writhes and wastes energy under them.
- Extract from : « Health Through Will Power » by James J. Walsh
- Tell the subjects of the imperatives and explain the forms and uses of the subjunctives.
- Extract from : « An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises » by George Lyman Kittredge
- The imperatives of thought are probably only another side of the imperatives of action.
- Extract from : « The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life » by Emile Durkheim
- He went ahead, the bride following next, and he kept giving a constant string of advices and imperatives.
- Extract from : « IT and Other Stories » by Gouverneur Morris
- The fakir howled out a sort of singsong dirge, which plainly had imperatives in every line of it.
- Extract from : « Told in the East » by Talbot Mundy
- Commands as to what to do are given every moment, only these imperatives are imperfectly obeyed and often changed.
- Extract from : « Outlines of Educational Doctrine » by John Frederick Herbart
- We affect a tremendous and cultivated shyness and delicacy about imperatives of the most arbitrary appearance.
- Extract from : « The New Machiavelli » by Herbert George Wells
Synonyms for imperatives
- accompaniment
- act
- adjuration
- attitude
- authorization
- ban
- behest
- belief
- bidding
- blank check
- call
- canon
- capacity
- carte blanche
- case
- category
- cause
- caveat
- chances
- character
- charge
- circumstance
- circumstances
- citation
- claim
- command
- commandment
- commission
- commitment
- committal
- compulsion
- concern
- condition
- conduct
- conscience
- contingency
- convention
- conventionalities
- criteria
- decency
- decree
- demand
- desideratum
- devoir
- dictate
- dictation
- dictum
- direction
- directive
- duress
- duty
- edict
- element
- enactment
- engrossment
- environment
- essence
- essential
- estate
- ethic
- ethicality
- ethicalness
- ethos
- event
- eventuality
- exaction
- exigency
- extremity
- fiat
- fix
- footing
- form
- frame of mind
- fulfillment
- fundamental
- go-ahead
- godsend
- goodness
- green light
- honesty
- honor
- humor
- ideal
- imperative
- imposition
- indispensability
- inevitability
- inexorableness
- injunction
- instruction
- integrity
- interdiction
- juncture
- lack
- law
- life or death
- limitation
- mandate
- mood
- moral code
- morality
- mores
- must
- natural law
- nature
- necessary
- need
- needfulness
- no alternative
- no choice
- notification
- obligation
- obsession
- occasion
- occurrence
- okay
- order
- ordinance
- ought
- outlook
- pass
- phase
- pinch
- plight
- position
- postulate
- posture
- practice
- precept
- precondition
- predicament
- preliminary
- preoccupation
- prepossession
- prerequisite
- prescript
- prescription
- principles
- privation
- proclamation
- prohibition
- propriety
- proscription
- provision
- proviso
- qualification
- regulation
- reputation
- request
- requirement
- requisite
- requisition
- responsibility
- right
- right and wrong
- righteousness
- rightfulness
- rightness
- rule
- rules of conduct
- sanction
- shape
- sine qua non
- situation
- specification
- spirits
- stand
- standard
- standards
- standing
- state of affairs
- station
- status
- stipulation
- stress
- subpoena
- summons
- terms
- the Golden Rule
- time
- ultimatum
- undeniability
- urgency
- value
- vital part
- vitals
- want
- warrant
- welfare
- will
- word
- writ
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