different between imperative vs importunate

English

Alternative forms

• imp., imper. (abbreviation, grammar)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imper?t?vus.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?p??.?.t?v/

Adjective

imperative (comparative more imperative, superlative most imperative)

1. Essential; crucial; extremely important.
2. (grammar) Of, or relating to the imperative mood.
3. (computing theory) Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
   • Antonym: functional
4. Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.

   • The suits of kings are imperative.

Translations

Noun

imperative (countable and uncountable, plural imperatives)

1. (uncountable, grammar) The grammatical mood expressing an order (see jussive). In English, the imperative form of a verb is the same as that of the bare infinitive.

   Synonym: imperative mood

   Coordinate terms: assertoric, interrogative

2. (countable, grammar) A verb in imperative mood.
3. (countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.

Synonyms

• required

Derived terms

Translations

Italian

Adjective

imperative f pl

1. feminine plural of imperativo

Anagrams

• riempivate

Latin

Alternative forms

• inper?t?v?

Etymology

From imper?t?vus (“commanded”), from imper? (“command, order”), from im- (form of in) + par? (“prepare, arrange; intend”).

Adverb

imper?t?v? (not comparable)

1. In an imperative manner, imperatively.

Related terms

References

• imperative in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• imperative in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [impera?tive]

Noun

imperative n pl

1. indefinite plural of imperativ

English

Etymology 1

From Latin importune +? -ate

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p??tj?n?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?p??t???n?t/

Adjective

importunate (comparative more importunate, superlative most importunate)

1. (of a demand) Persistent or pressing, often annoyingly so.
   • 1890, Henry James, The Tragic Muse:

     Nick was on the point of declaring again that he was a humbug, so vivid was his inner sense of what he thought of his factitious public utterances, which had the cursed property of creating dreadful responsibilities and importunate credulities for him.

2. (of a person) Given to importunate demands, greedily or thoughtlessly demanding.

Related terms

• importune

Translations

Etymology 2

From French importuner (“to bother, disturb”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p??tju?ne?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?p??tju?ne?t/

Verb

importunate (third-person singular simple present importunates, present participle importunating, simple past and past participle importunated)

1. (rare) To importune, or to obtain by importunity.
   • 1581 June 23, Thomas Churchyard, letter to Sir Christopher Hatton, in Sir Harris Nicolas (editor), Memoirs of the Life and Times of Sir Christopher Hatton, K.G., Richard Bentley (publisher, 1847), page 173:

     All which notwithstanding, I obtained licence at length to make my supplication to the noble Parliament house; but I could find no messengers till Sir John Seton went, whom I importunated daily to obtain me favor for my return home again.

   • 1847 December 18, N. Roussel, “Spiritual Destitution of Paris.—Appeal to British Christians”, in Evangelical Christendom: Its State and Prospects, Volume II (1848), Partridge and Oakey, page 43:

     Is my work ended? The fear of importunating my friends answers, “Yes.”

   • 1910 July, David Leslie Brown, “The Need of To-day”, in Sunset, Volume 25, Southern Pacific Company, reverse of frontispiece:

     It is the concrete that impresses, that importunates until it influences—in writing as in everything else.

Translations

Anagrams

• permutation, premutation

Italian

Verb

importunate

1. second-person plural present indicative of importunare
2. second-person plural imperative of importunare
3. feminine plural of importunato