Word research for the day : Imperative

Imperative : Expressing a command or plea; peremptory

"Come here" - come is imperative in this sentence. This word is derived from emperor (who commands). Now we look for peremptory, which means "putting an end to all contradiction, arguments". Now since we can see this word to be used for commanding, a sense of hurry is obtained underneath - so we can sense the command to be urgent, now further looking at urgent we can smell - this command to be exigent (Requiring immediate action or remedy, Requiring much effort or expense; demanding). If we dig further, exigent will lead us back to imperative.

Now further discussing and linking exigent which also means demanding, we will get clamant (Demanding attention; pressing) and insistent (Demanding attention or a response; insistent hunger). These words can be used to make more accurate selection while writing. Here insistent takes us to persistent (Insistently repetitive or continuous: a persistent ringing of the telephone.) we have seen persistent used by M$ error (if problem persists, please contact ... blah blah blah) Now we can smell some negative sense in all these words, we can simplify (or make it more complex) it to stubborn (Unreasonably, often perversely unyielding; bullheaded) and dogged (Stubbornly persevering; tenacious) - these can be used for unyielding (Not bending; inflexible) persistence. As we have dogged in the list we can further check one more synonym of this that is - bullheaded (Foolishly or irrationally stubborn; headstrong).

So, lets summarize this all, we started with imperative which is a command having a dictatorial nature, this command is peremptory and urgent. Urgent leads us to words like clamant and insistent. Insistent is persistent. Finally we concluded some of the strong words like stubborn, dogged and bullheaded.

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