Meaning of FORCED
| Pronunciation: | | fowrst
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- [adj] lacking spontaneity; not natural; "a constrained smile"; "forced heartiness"; "a strained smile"
- [adj] made necessary by an unexpected situation or emergency; "a forced landing"
- [adj] forced or compelled; "promised to abolish forced labor"
- [adj] produced by or subjected to forcing; "forced-air heating"; "furnaces of the forced-convection type"; "forced convection in plasma generators"
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| | Synonyms: | | affected, constrained, involuntary, nonvoluntary, strained, unexpected, unnatural, unscheduled, unvoluntary |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
{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.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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