Usually means: Necessary, essential command or duty.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word imperative:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. imperative, the imperative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. imperative, the imperative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. imperative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. imperative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. imperative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Imperative, imperative: Wordnik
  7. imperative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. imperative: Wiktionary
  9. imperative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. imperative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. imperative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. imperative: Dictionary.com
  13. imperative: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. imperative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Imperative (film), Imperative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Imperative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. imperative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. imperative: Rhymezone
  19. Imperative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. imperative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. imperative: Free Dictionary
  22. imperative: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. imperative: Mnemonic Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Imperative: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. imperative: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. imperative: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Imperative (programming), imperative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. imperative: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. IMperative: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See imperatively as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Essential; crucial; extremely important.
adjective:  (grammar) Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
adjective:  (computing theory) Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
adjective:  Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
noun:  (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.
noun:  (countable, grammar) A verb in imperative mood.
noun:  (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.

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