OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 1618

imperative

/ɪmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
imperativo
Essential; crucial; extremely important.
Meantime, alterations at King William Street had become imperative, and by December 22, 1895, the station had been remodelled, as at Stockwell, to provide an island platform with l…
That you come here right now is imperative.
imperativo
Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
📚 noun • entry_id 1619

imperative

/ɪmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
imperativo
A verb in the imperative mood.
imperativo
An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
Anything grandiose or historically based tends to sound flat and banal when it reaches English, partly because translators get stuck between contradictory imperatives: juggling fid…
Visiting Berlin is an imperative.