IMPERATIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does imperatively mean? 

• IMPERATIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb IMPERATIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in an imperative and commanding manner

  Familiarity information: IMPERATIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPERATIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an imperative and commanding manner

Synonyms:

imperatively; peremptorily

Pertainym:

imperative (requiring attention or action)

 Context examples 

She had been asleep, always, and now life was thundering imperatively at all her doors.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I have resolved every night, when I am not imperatively occupied by my duties, to record, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has related during the day.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“What?” Wolf Larsen demanded, sharply and imperatively.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But she leaned not imperatively, not seductively, but wistfully and humbly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Before I could reply that he was my neighbor dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)