imperative
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5.8
- noun
- /ɪmˈpɛrətɪv/
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imperativo
- Addressing climate change is an imperative for ensuring a sustainable future for the next generations.
- a moral imperative
- an ethical imperative
- an economic imperative
So once I understood, OK, evolution has given me this imperative to relax, to chill.
- So once I understood, OK, evolution has given me this imperative to relax, to chill.
- You don't know how much you're going to feel the behavioral imperative to act on that thought.
- There's no imperative that you frame, frame it out as, OK, this is going to be a retreat.
- OK, these are you have that imperative.
- That is where the categorical imperative is as a something possible intruding into actuality.
Examples
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Do you think there is an 'ethical imperative' to share important decisions with patients?
Academic text (2012) -
It serves the ancient imperative of protecting oneself against marauders.
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I feel a strong moral imperative to share my wealth.
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It's like a moral imperative.
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It is an imperative for action.
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It was a business imperative to get the new restaurant open and operating as soon as possible.
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There's a moral imperative involved here.
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Resolving these difficult issues is a moral imperative as well as sound, democratic nation-building.
Academic text (1990) -
In this formulation, greater social equity is both an ethical imperative and an objective requirement for sustainable development.
Academic text (1999) -
Various administrations and Congresses have neglected the imperative of setting priorities.
Academic text (2011)
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
9.9
A moral rule that applies to everyone and comes from duty, not personal wants or results
- Formal
A rule that says to do something only if you want a certain result
- Specialized
A way of writing programs that tells the computer what to do step by step and how to change values
How Urgent
∞
1.3
34
5.8
524
3.2
687
2.0
∞
1.0
∞
1.0
553
2.5
Surface Forms
Etymology
Imperative comes from the Latin imperare, 'to command', the same root behind imperial and emperor. So an imperative is a thing that 'commands' action — a vital or urgent task that must be done.