Emphatic vs. Imperative — What's the Difference?

Expressing something forcibly and clearly

Necessary or urgent

(of a word or syllable) bearing the stress.

Expressing a command or plea; peremptory

An emphatic consonant.

(Grammar) Of, relating to, or constituting the mood that expresses a command or request.

Expressed or performed with emphasis

A rule, principle, or need that requires or compels certain action

Forceful and definite in expression or action.

A command; an order.

Standing out in a striking and clearly defined way.

The imperative mood.

(Linguistics) Pharyngealized, velarized, or ejective. Used of consonants in Semitic languages.

A verb form of the imperative mood.

Characterized by emphasis; forceful.

Essential; crucial; extremely important.

Stated with conviction.

(grammar) Of, or relating to the imperative mood.

(grammar) Belonging to a set of English tense forms comprising the auxiliary verb do + an infinitive without to.

(computing theory) Having semantics that incorporates mutable variables.

(phonology) Belonging to a series of obstruent consonants in several Afro-Asiatic languages that are distinguished by a guttural (co-)articulation.

Expressing a command; authoritatively or absolutely directive.

Pharyngealized consonants in Arabic, Hebrew, other Northwest Semitic languages, and Berber languages

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.

Ejective consonants in Ge'ez, Amharic, other Ethiopic Semitic languages, Chadic and Cushitic languages

A verb in imperative mood.

And /ʕ/}} (these being seen as emphatic equivalents of /h/}} and /ʔ/}}).

(countable) An essential action, a must: something which is imperative.

(phonology) An emphatic consonant.

Expressive of command; containing positive command; authoritatively or absolutely directive; commanding; authoritative; as, imperative orders.

(linguistics) A word or phrase adding emphasis, such as "a lot" or "really".

Not to be avoided or evaded; obligatory; binding; compulsory; as, an imperative duty or order.

Uttered with emphasis; made prominent and impressive by a peculiar stress of voice; laying stress; deserving of stress or emphasis; forcible; impressive; strong; as, to remonstrate in an emphatic manner; emphatic denials; an emphatic word; an emphatic tone; emphatic reasoning.

Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as, the imperative mood.

Striking the sense; attracting special attention; impressive; forcible.

The imperative mood; also, a verb in the imperative mood.

Forceful and definite in expression or action; - of statements, actions, or sections of documents; as, the document contained a particularly emphatic guarantee of religious liberty.

A mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior

Sudden and strong; - of statements; as, an emphatic no.

Some duty that is essential and urgent

Spoken with emphasis;

Requiring attention or action;

Sudden and strong;

Relating to verbs in the imperative mood

Forceful and definite in expression or action;