imperative form

1. 1.

   a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior

   Synonymsimperative moodimperativejussive mood

   Broadermood

Questions about imperative form

What does imperative form mean?

imperative form means "a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior".

What is another word for imperative form?

Close synonyms include imperative mood, imperative, jussive mood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is imperative form a common word?

imperative form is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.