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imperative
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  • It's becoming imperative that we get that national deficit under control.
    imperative = essential and urgent
  • I was under way, propelled by an imperative that was beyond my ability to control or comprehend.  (source)
    imperative = something demanding attention
  • Life had altered in the wildest possible way, but it was imperative that they act as if nothing at all had happened.  (source)
    imperative = essential
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  • "Imbuing violence with holy meaning," wrote the historian Iris Chang, "the Japanese imperial army made violence a cultural imperative every bit as powerful as that which propelled Europeans during the Crusades and the Spanish Inquisition."  (source)
    imperative = something that is essential
  • What pressures will come to bear on American English to accommodate technology and the business imperatives behind it?†  (source)
  • He could feel the skillful hand of fate motivating him imperatively.  (source)
    imperatively = in a demanding way
  • But whatever blemishes others might discern in William, to his friend's mind he was faultless; for Marner had one of those impressible self-doubting natures which, at an inexperienced age, admire imperativeness and lean on contradiction.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • It's imperative you're discreet.  (source)
    imperative = essential
  • I wondered; but said nothing—Sebastian's life was governed by a code of such imperatives.†  (source)
  • Before I could reply that he was my neighbor dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.  (source)
    imperatively = in a manner that required attention
  • She felt to the full all the imperativeness of the motives which urged Will's conduct.†  (source)
  • But bringing order of the confusion in the castle was more imperative.  (source)
    imperative = urgent
  • Elwood and his fine moral imperatives and his very fine ideas about the capacity of human beings to improve.†  (source)
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