Synonyms:
imperative
Meaning: requiring attention or action; "as nuclear weapons proliferate, preventing war becomes imperative"; "requests that grew more and more imperative"
Usage examples
The imperative duties of Idaho are as follows:
Yes, certainly she has; and for an imperative reason.
Thurston beat an imperative tattoo upon the door with the butt of his quirt, and shouted.
It was imperative to gain time so that the untouched portions of the army could form across the line of the Confederate advance.
Secondly, in the case of this categorical imperative or law of morality, the difficulty (of discerning its possibility) is a very profound one.
Whether this interest was private or otherwise, in any case the imperative must be conditional and could not by any means be capable of being a moral command.
There is therefore but one categorical imperative, namely, this: Act only on that maxim whereby thou canst at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
He understood that she was under certain obligations to Miss Calhoun and he wanted to be perfectly sure of his position before taking a step which now seemed imperative.
It is those that are called up throughout life by the imperative needs of the body--hunger, thirst, sexual desire--hence wish fulfillments in reaction to internal physical stimuli.
Accordingly the practical imperative will be as follows: So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.