Plural of imperative
regular plural
The plural of imperative is imperatives.
Forms of imperative
| Singular | imperative /ɪmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | imperatives |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Imperatives in a sentence
- The reason is that it is difficult to find imperatives which take a subjectlike oblique noun phrase.2011, Toril Swan, Endre Mørck, Olaf Jansen, Language Change and Language Structure, page 171. From the entry subjectlike
- It continues to pin bankers in an overregulated and overrestrained structure and adds considerable microregulatory imperatives.1992, Proceedings of a Conference on Bank Structure and Competition. From the entry overrestrained
- The earth has given us three imperatives.2004, Paul R. Fleischman, “Introduction to the Second Edition”, in Cultivating Inner Peace: Exploring the Psychology, Wisdom, and Poetry…. From the entry decabillion
- Categorical imperatives do not typically contain an 'if.2001, Roger Scruton, Christopher Janaway, German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, page 75. From the entry categorical imperatives
- Sometimes artificial light becomes an evolutionary trap as the age-old biological imperatives of a species, which helped it survive for eons, turn into liabilities.2010, Jane Brox, Brilliant: The Evolution of Artificial Light, page 279. From the entry evolutionary trap
Meaning of imperative
- adjective Essential; crucial; extremely important.
- adjective Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
- adjective Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
Questions about the plural of imperative
- What is the plural of imperative?
- The plural of imperative is imperatives.
- Is imperative countable?
- Imperative is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: imperative (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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