All imperativeness synonyms
im·per·a·tive
I i noun imperativeness
- demand — If one thing demands another, the first needs the second in order to happen or be dealt with successfully.
- acuteness — sharp or severe in effect; intense: acute sorrow; an acute pain.
- demandingness — the quality of being demanding
- constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
- emergency — A serious, unexpected, and often dangerous situation requiring immediate action.
- contingency — A contingency is something that might happen in the future.
- extremity — The furthest point or limit of something.
- crisis — A crisis is a situation in which something or someone is affected by one or more very serious problems.
- difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
- crossroad — a road that crosses another road
- exigence — Exigency.
- dilemma — a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.
- distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- duress — compulsion by threat or force; coercion; constraint.
- fix — to repair; mend.
- hardship — a condition that is difficult to endure; suffering; deprivation; oppression: a life of hardship.
- jam — to press, squeeze, or wedge tightly between bodies or surfaces, so that motion or extrication is made difficult or impossible: The ship was jammed between two rocks.
- juncture — a point of time, especially one made critical or important by a concurrence of circumstances: At this juncture, we must decide whether to stay or to walk out.
- necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- need — a requirement, necessary duty, or obligation: There is no need for you to go there.
- pass — to move past; go by: to pass another car on the road.
- pickle — a single grain or kernel, as of barley or corn.
- pinch — to squeeze or compress between the finger and thumb, the teeth, the jaws of an instrument, or the like.
- plight — Archaic. pledge.
- predicament — an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation.
- pressure — the exertion of force upon a surface by an object, fluid, etc., in contact with it: the pressure of earth against a wall.
- quandary — a state of perplexity or uncertainty, especially as to what to do; dilemma.
- requirement — that which is required; a thing demanded or obligatory: One of the requirements of the job is accuracy.
- scrape — to deprive of or free from an outer layer, adhering matter, etc., or to smooth by drawing or rubbing something, especially a sharp or rough instrument, over the surface: to scrape a table to remove paint and varnish.
- stress — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
- turning point — a point at which a decisive change takes place; critical point; crisis.
- urgency — urgent character; imperativeness; insistence; importunateness.
- vicissitude — a change or variation occurring in the course of something.
- want — to feel a need or a desire for; wish for: to want one's dinner; always wanting something new.
- wont — accustomed; used (usually followed by an infinitive): He was wont to rise at dawn.
- zero hour — the time set for the beginning of a military attack or operation.
- criticalness — inclined to find fault or to judge with severity, often too readily.
- needful — necessary or required: needful supplies.
- pressing — urgent; demanding immediate attention: a pressing need.