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Plural of imperative

regular plural

The plural of imperative is imperatives.

Forms of imperative

Singularimperative /ɪmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/
Pluralimperatives
Countablecountable 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

  1. adjective Essential; crucial; extremely important.
  2. adjective Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
  3. adjective Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.

Full definition of imperative

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.

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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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