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IMPERATIVE MOOD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does imperative mood mean?
• IMPERATIVE MOOD (noun)
The noun IMPERATIVE MOOD has 1 sense:
1. a mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior
Familiarity information: IMPERATIVE MOOD used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 mood" is a kind of...):
modality; mode; mood (verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker)
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