IMPERATIVE FORM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imperative form mean? 

• IMPERATIVE FORM (noun)
  The noun IMPERATIVE FORM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: IMPERATIVE FORM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPERATIVE FORM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

imperative; imperative form; imperative mood; jussive mood

Hypernyms ("imperative form" is a kind of...):

modality; mode; mood (verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker)