'Forced' definitions:
Definition of 'forced'
From: WordNet
adjective
Produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators"
adjective
Forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor"
adjective
Made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"
adjective
Lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile" [syn: constrained, forced, strained]
Definition of 'Forced'
From: GCIDE
- Force \Force\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Forced; p. pr. & vb. n. Forcing.] [OF. forcier, F. forcer, fr. LL. forciare, fortiare. See Force, n.]
- 1. To constrain to do or to forbear, by the exertion of a power not resistible; to compel by physical, moral, or intellectual means; to coerce; as, masters force slaves to labor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To compel, as by strength of evidence; as, to force conviction on the mind. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To do violence to; to overpower, or to compel by violence to one's will; especially, to ravish; to violate; to commit rape upon. [1913 Webster]
- To force their monarch and insult the court. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- I should have forced thee soon wish other arms. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- To force a spotless virgin's chastity. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To obtain, overcome, or win by strength; to take by violence or struggle; specifically, to capture by assault; to storm, as a fortress; as, to force the castle; to force a lock. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To impel, drive, wrest, extort, get, etc., by main strength or violence; -- with a following adverb, as along, away, from, into, through, out, etc. [1913 Webster]
- It stuck so fast, so deeply buried lay That scarce the victor forced the steel away. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- To force the tyrant from his seat by war. --Sahk. [1913 Webster]
- Ethelbert ordered that none should be forced into religion. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To put in force; to cause to be executed; to make binding; to enforce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- What can the church force more? --J. Webster. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To exert to the utmost; to urge; hence, to strain; to urge to excessive, unnatural, or untimely action; to produce by unnatural effort; as, to force a conceit or metaphor; to force a laugh; to force fruits. [1913 Webster]
- High on a mounting wave my head I bore, Forcing my strength, and gathering to the shore. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 8. (Whist) To compel (an adversary or partner) to trump a trick by leading a suit of which he has none. [1913 Webster]
- 9. To provide with forces; to re["e]nforce; to strengthen by soldiers; to man; to garrison. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 10. To allow the force of; to value; to care for. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- For me, I force not argument a straw. --Shak.
- Syn: To compel; constrain; oblige; necessitate; coerce; drive; press; impel. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Forced'
From: GCIDE
- Forced \Forced\, a. Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. [1913 Webster]
- Forced draught. See under Draught.
- Forced march (Mil.), a march of one or more days made with all possible speed. -- {For"ced*ly}, adv. -- {For"ced*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'forced'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affected,
- arduous,
- artificial,
- at odds,
- automatic,
- averse,
- awkward,
- backbreaking,
- blind,
- bombastic,
- burdensome,
- calculated,
- coerced,
- compelled,
- compulsive,
- conditioned,
- constrained,
- contrived,
- cramped,
- crushing,
- cumbrous,
- cursory,
- differing,
- disagreeing,
- disinclined,
- disobedient,
- distant,
- effortful,
- elephantine,
- exhausting,
- factitious,
- faked,
- false,
- farfetched,
- fatiguing,
- feigned,
- formal,
- fractious,
- grueling,
- guinde,
- halting,
- hard-earned,
- hard-fought,
- heavy,
- hefty,
- Herculean,
- improbable,
- impulsive,
- indisposed,
- indocile,
- inflexible,
- inkhorn,
- instinctive,
- involuntary,
- killing,
- labored,
- laborious,
- Latinate,
- leaden,
- lumbering,
- mannered,
- mechanical,
- mutinous,
- onerous,
- operose,
- opposed,
- oppressive,
- out-of-the-way,
- painful,
- perfunctory,
- pompous,
- ponderous,
- punishing,
- quite another thing,
- recalcitrant,
- reflex,
- reflexive,
- refractory,
- remote,
- resistant,
- rigid,
- self-conscious,
- sesquipedalian,
- something else again,
- stiff,
- stilted,
- strained,
- strenuous,
- studied,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- toilsome,
- tough,
- troublesome,
- turgid,
- unconscious,
- unconsenting,
- unintentional,
- unnatural,
- unthinking,
- unwieldy,
- unwilled,
- unwilling,
- unwitting,
- uphill,
- wearisome,
- wooden
Words containing 'Forced'
- Force,
- Forcedly,
- Forceful,
- Forcefully,
- Forcing,
- In force,
- No force,
- Of force,
- force from,
- force out,
- forcefulness,
- forces,
- forcing out,
- Animal force,
- By main force,
- Catabiotic force,
- Catalytic force,
- Central force,
- Centrifugal force,
- Centripetal force,
- Coercitive force,
- Coercive force,
- Component of force,
- Composition of forces,
- Conservation of force,
- Correlation of forces,
- Decomposition of forces,
- Deflective forces,
- Force and arms,
- Force pump,
- Forced draught,
- Forced march,
- Forcing bed,
- Forcing engine,
- Forcing fit,
- Forcing house,
- Forcing machine,
- Forcing main,
- Forcing pit,
- Forcing pump,
- Horizontal force,
- Land force,
- Leverage of a force,
- Line of force,
- Living force,
- Metabolic force,
- Moment of a force,
- Moving force,
- Parallel forces,
- Plastic force,
- Polar forces,
- Polygon of forces,
- Reconnoissance in force,
- Resolution of a force,
- Resultant force,
- Tangential force,
- Vital force,
- aerodynamic force,
- air force,
- armed force,
- armed forces,
- attractive force,
- brute force,
- color force,
- coriolis force,
- defence force,
- defense force,
- driving force,
- electromagnetic force,
- electromotive force,
- field of force,
- force 17,
- force back,
- force feed,
- force field,
- force function,
- force majeure,
- force of habit,
- force play,
- force unit,
- force upon,
- force-out,
- forced feeding,
- forced landing,
- forced meat,
- forced sale,
- gravitational force,
- ground forces,
- guerilla force,
- guerrilla force,
- join forces,
- labor force,
- life force,
- lorentz force,
- magnetic force,
- magnetomotive force,
- market forces,
- military force,
- moral force,
- naval forces,
- parallelogram of forces,
- paramilitary force,
- police force,
- reconnaissance in force,
- repulsive force,
- retarding force,
- sales force,
- security force,
- special forces,
- strong force,
- task force,
- weak force,
- work force,
- Air Force Academy,
- air force isr,
- air force officer,
- armed forces censorship,
- armed forces day,
- catholic reaction force,
- electrical line of force,
- electromotive force series,
- field of magnetic force,
- force-feed,
- force-land,
- forceful slashing vigorous,
- former armed forces,
- g-force,
- israeli defense force,
- loyalist volunteer force,
- magnetic line of force,
- magnetomotive force unit,
- private security force,
- royal air force,
- tour de force,
- u. s. air force,
- us air force,
- Air Force Academy, CO,
- Electro-motive force,
- air force research laboratory,
- air force space command,
- force per unit area,
- lautaro popular rebel forces,
- revolutionary armed forces of colombia,
- u. s. army special forces,
- united states air force,
- us air force academy,
- van der waal's forces,
- air force intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance,
- force-feed lubricating system,
- forces of umar al-mukhtar,
- umar al-mukhtar forces,
- united states air force academy,
- united states army special forces,
- united self-defense force of colombia