imperatively

1. 1.

   in an imperative and commanding manner

   Synonymsperemptorily

Questions about imperatively

What does imperatively mean?

imperatively means "in an imperative and commanding manner".

How many syllables are in imperatively?

imperatively has 6 syllables and divides as im-pe-ra-ti-ve-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for imperatively?

Close synonyms include peremptorily. 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 imperatively a common word?

imperatively 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.