Importune vs Imperative - What's the difference?
importune | imperative |
To bother, trouble, irritate.
* , II.17:
To harass with persistent requests.
* 1610 , , act 2 scene 1
* Jonathan Swift
To approach to offer one's services as a prostitute, or otherwise make improper proposals.
(obsolete) To import; to signify.
* Spenser
(obsolete) Grievous, severe, exacting.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.vi:
(obsolete) inopportune; unseasonable
(obsolete) troublesome; vexatious; persistent
* Spenser
* Francis Bacon
essential
(computing theory) Having a semantics that incorporates mutable variables.
(grammar) of, or relating to the imperative mood
Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.
* Bishop Hall
(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.
(countable, grammar) A verb in imperative mood.
(countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.
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As a verb importune
is .As an adjective imperative is
.importune
English
Verb
(importun)- To deliberate, be it but in slight matters, doth importune me.
- You were kneel'd to, and importun'd otherwise / By all of us;.
- Their ministers and residents here have perpetually importuned the court with unreasonable demands.
- It importunes death.
Adjective
(en adjective)- And therewithall he fiercely at him flew, / And with importune outrage him assayld [...].
- And their importune fates all satisfied.
- Of all other affections it [envy] is the most importune and continual.
imperative
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- It is imperative that you come here right now.
- imperative orders
- The suits of kings are imperative .
Noun
- The verbs in sentences like "Do it!" and "Say what you like!" are in the imperative .
- Visiting Berlin is an imperative .