Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Imposed by force; involuntary.
- adjective Produced under strain; not spontaneous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Effected by an unusual application of force or effort.
- Overstrained; unnatural; affected; artificial.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure
- adjective See under
Draught . - adjective (Mil.) a march of one or more days made with all possible speed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
force . - adjective obtained
forcefully , not naturally - adjective opened or accessed using
force
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective produced by or subjected to forcing
- adjective made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency
- adjective forced or compelled
- adjective lacking spontaneity; not natural
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word forced.
Examples
-
Just as well as the seal in traps may be forced back by the increased pressure of the air within the pipes, the same seal may be _forced out_, pulled out, aspirated, or siphoned out by a sudden withdrawal of a large quantity of air from the pipes with which the trap is connected.
The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
-
They may be (1) _living_ or _dead_; (2) _forced_ or _avoidable_; (3) _momentous_ or _trivial_; and for our purposes we may call an option a _genuine_ option when it is of the forced, living, and momentous kind.
The Making of Arguments J. H. Gardiner
-
I shall never forget the joy it gave me, -- the gratitude it caused me, -- the good it did me, at the very moment when I was forced, _ay forced_ to reject that offer.
Fairy Fingers A Novel Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie 1844
-
When you use the term forced busing, what do you refer to specifically?
-
This, perhaps, would be the right way of beginning a story (not that it is a story exactly), with the title forced on me by the name and nature of the hero.
Angling Sketches Andrew Lang 1878
-
I don't think any of the babes did like it at the time, not even Heidi (who usually loves Xenomania) but the label forced the release of it.
unknown title 2009
-
I don't think any of the babes did like it at the time, not even Heidi (who usually loves Xenomania) but the label forced the release of it.
unknown title 2009
-
I don't think any of the babes did like it at the time, not even Heidi (who usually loves Xenomania) but the label forced the release of it.
unknown title 2009
-
When they flee, in what we call forced migration, they're going into the region to live amongst the poor.
-
But that's what happened when the Texas Education Agency put its science curriculum director Chris Comer on administrative leave in late October, leading to what she calls a forced resignation.
-
Forced disappearance – where a person is detained, extrajudicially killed by the state and their body then destroyed or hidden – has a long history in Mexico, going back to the country’s so-called dirty war of the 1960s and 70s where dissidents were even thrown out of planes and into the Pacific Ocean.
Disappearances in Mexico involving state at ‘alarming’ rate, says report Oscar Lopez 2026
oroboros commented on the word forced
FORCED: A large group of trees, as “Lemme showya mah pine forced.”
July 2, 2012