Thesaurus / imperatives
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synonyms for imperatives
- precondition
- prerequisite
- requisite
- charge
- commitment
- committal
- condition
- devoir
- duty
- fundamental
- imperative
- must-have
- necessary
- need
- obligation
- requirement
- right
- ought
- sine qua non
- essential
- fundamental
- obligation
- precondition
- prerequisite
- requirement
- urgency
- call
- cause
- claim
- compulsion
- demand
- desideratum
- duress
- essence
- exaction
- exigency
- godsend
- imperative
- indispensability
- inevitability
- inexorableness
- must
- must-have
- necessary
- pinch
- privation
- requisite
- stress
- vitals
- want
- life or death
- needfulness
- no alternative
- no choice
- sine qua non
- undeniability
- vital part
- essential
- must
- must-have
- precondition
- qualification
- requirement
- requisite
- imperative
- need
- postulate
- sine qua non
- claim
- compulsion
- concern
- condition
- demand
- desideratum
- element
- engrossment
- essential
- exaction
- exigency
- extremity
- fulfillment
- fundamental
- imperative
- lack
- must
- need
- obligation
- obsession
- pinch
- precondition
- preliminary
- preoccupation
- prepossession
- prerequisite
- prescription
- provision
- proviso
- qualification
- sine qua non
- specification
- stipulation
- terms
- urgency
- vital part
- case
- accompaniment
- attitude
- capacity
- category
- chances
- character
- circumstance
- circumstances
- contingency
- element
- environment
- essential
- estate
- event
- eventuality
- fix
- footing
- form
- humor
- imperative
- juncture
- limitation
- mood
- nature
- occasion
- occurrence
- outlook
- pass
- phase
- plight
- position
- posture
- predicament
- prerequisite
- proviso
- reputation
- requirement
- shape
- situation
- spirits
- stand
- standing
- station
- status
- stipulation
- time
- welfare
- frame of mind
- state of affairs
- belief
- conduct
- conscience
- convention
- conventionalities
- criteria
- decency
- ethos
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- ideal
- imperative
- integrity
- morality
- mores
- nature
- practice
- principles
- standard
- standards
- value
- moral code
- natural law
- concern
- condition
- demand
- need
- obligation
- precondition
- prerequisite
- provision
- qualification
- specification
- stipulation
- claim
- compulsion
- desideratum
- element
- engrossment
- essential
- exaction
- exigency
- extremity
- fulfillment
- fundamental
- imperative
- lack
- must
- obsession
- pinch
- preliminary
- preoccupation
- prepossession
- prescription
- proviso
- requisite
- stress
- terms
- urgency
- want
- vital part
- belief
- conduct
- conscience
- convention
- conventionalities
- criteria
- decency
- ethic
- ethos
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- ideal
- imperative
- integrity
- morality
- mores
- nature
- practice
- principles
- propriety
- righteousness
- rightness
- standard
- standards
- value
- ethicality
- ethicalness
- moral code
- natural law
- goodness
- righteousness
- belief
- conduct
- conscience
- convention
- conventionalities
- criteria
- decency
- ethic
- ethos
- honesty
- honor
- ideal
- imperative
- integrity
- morality
- mores
- nature
- practice
- principles
- propriety
- rightfulness
- standard
- standards
- value
- ethicality
- ethicalness
- moral code
- natural law
- direction
- duty
- law
- mandate
- order
- regulation
- request
- responsibility
- rule
- word
- act
- adjuration
- ban
- behest
- bidding
- call
- canon
- caveat
- charge
- citation
- commandment
- decree
- demand
- devoir
- dictate
- dictation
- dictum
- edict
- enactment
- exaction
- fiat
- imperative
- imposition
- injunction
- interdiction
- notification
- obligation
- ordinance
- precept
- prescript
- proclamation
- prohibition
- proscription
- requirement
- requisition
- subpoena
- summons
- ultimatum
- warrant
- will
- writ
- belief
- conduct
- conscience
- convention
- conventionalities
- criteria
- decency
- ethos
- goodness
- honesty
- honor
- ideal
- imperative
- integrity
- moral code
- morality
- mores
- natural law
- nature
- practice
- principles
- right and wrong
- rules of conduct
- standard
- standards
- the Golden Rule
On this page you'll find 440 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to imperatives, such as: authorization, command, decree, directive, injunction, and instruction.
- answer
- disorganization
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- allowance
- permission
- request
- contradiction
- countermand
- opposition
- recall
- reversal
- revocation
- subordination
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How to use imperatives in a sentence
We affect a tremendous and cultivated shyness and delicacy about imperatives of the most arbitrary appearance.
THE NEW MACHIAVELLIHERBERT GEORGE WELLSThe child never put this particular record into his list of imperatives, but he was reconciled to it.
THE BOY GREW OLDERHEYWOOD BROUNThis word therefore is the blending or corruption of bot and beut, the Imperatives of two Saxon verbs, botan and beutan.
DISSERTATION ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGENOAH WEBSTER, JR.Would those whom such conclusions repelled be content to oppose to nature's imperatives only the protests of the heart?
EVOLUTION IN MODERN THOUGHTERNST HAECKELI refer to the high and passionate imperatives of the heroic, desperate, treasonable heart of man.
THE COMPLEX VISIONJOHN COWPER POWYSHe alone who has fully mastered the breathless state 12-16 is freed from cosmic imperatives.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A YOGIPARAMHANSA YOGANANDABut short of this there is room for an infinite variety of "categorical imperatives."
THE COMPLEX VISIONJOHN COWPER POWYSIt is demonstrated that they are both the imperatives of old verbs.
DISSERTATION ON THE ENGLISH LANGUAGENOAH WEBSTER, JR.The former case appears chiefly in connection with the moral imperatives.
INTRODUCTION TO THE SCIENCE OF SOCIOLOGYROBERT E. PARKHe was afraid of the great imperatives that he knew would at once take hold of his life.
SOUL OF A BISHOPH. G. WELLS