WordNet: imperative

requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"

• also see assertive, self-asserting, self-assertive

• similar to adjuratory

• similar to clamant, crying, exigent, insistent, instant

• similar to peremptory

• similar to desperate

• similar to pressing, urgent

• similar to shrill, strident

imperative

• (englanti) beseeching (antonym)

• (englanti) imperativeness (derivationally related)
• (suomi) välttämätön (synonyymi)