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imperative

/ɪmˈpɛrətɪv/

US pronunciation
American sound/ɪmˈpɛrətɪv/
ɪmˈpɛrətɪv
Syllables
4 syllables
Stress
2nd syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Final e often stays silent

ɪm - ˈpɛrətɪv -> imperative

Myanmar meaning

(adj) အလွန်အရေးကြီး [သော]။ အရေးပါ[သော]။ အမိန့်ပေးသော။ စေခိုင်းသော။ (n) မရှိမဖြစ်သောအရာ။ အရေးပါသောအရာ။ (grammar) အာဏတ္တိဝိဘတ်။ စေခိုင်း ဝိဘတ်။

Full entry

imperative / Çm'perǝtiv / adj

၁။ (fml ) အလွန်အရေးကြီး [သော]။ အရေးပါ[သော]။ It is absolutely imperative that we make a quick decision.
၂။ (fml ) အမိန့်ပေးသော။ စေခိုင်းသော။
an imperative tone of voice.
n
၁။ မရှိမဖြစ်သောအရာ။ အရေးပါသောအရာ။
a moral / strategic imperative ❍ Survival is our first imperative.
၂။ (grammar ) အာဏတ္တိဝိဘတ်။ စေခိုင်း ဝိဘတ်။ In ‘Go away!’ the verb is an imperative / is in the imperative. Compare INDICATIVE ၂, INFINITIVE, SUBJUNCTIVE

More examples
  • Long-term investing is risky, and careful planning is imperative.
  • [it is imperative (that)] : It is imperative that these claims are dealt with quickly.
  • [it is imperative to do something] : It was imperative to maintain peace and stability in the region.
Synonyms
very important, vital, crucial, essential, urgent, of the essence, necessary, acute, aggressive, authoritative, autocratic, bidding, bossy, burning, clamant, clamorous, commanding, compulsory, constraint, critical, crying, dictatorial, dominant, domineering, exigent, harsh, high-handed, immediate, imperial, imperious, important, importunate, indispensable, inescapable, insistent, instant, must, necessity, need, no turning back, obligation, obligatory, ordering, overbearing, peremptory, powerful, pressing, priority, requirement, rule, stern
Antonyms
discretionary, free, inessential, insignificant, nonessential, option, optional, secondary, subservient, trivial, uncritical, unimportant, unnecessary, unrestrained, voluntary
Cross references
very importantvitalcrucialessentialurgentof the essencenecessaryacuteaggressiveauthoritativeautocraticbiddingbossyburningclamantclamorouscommandingcompulsoryconstraintcriticalcryingdictatorialdominantdomineeringexigentharshhigh-handedimmediate
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