Forcible
['fɔːsɪb(ə)l] or ['fɔrsəbl]
Definition
(adj.) impelled by physical force especially against resistance; 'forcible entry'; 'a real cop would get physical'; 'strong-arm tactics' .
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Definition
(a.) Possessing force; characterized by force, efficiency, or energy; powerful; efficacious; impressive; influential.
(a.) Violent; impetuous.
(a.) Using force against opposition or resistance; obtained by compulsion; effected by force; as, forcible entry or abduction.
Edited by Barrett
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Powerful, strong, mighty, weighty, potent, impressive, irresistible, cogent, all-powerful.[2]. Violent, impetuous.[3]. Energetic, vigorous, effective, efficacious.
Checker: Maisie
Examples
- None came, and her next words seemed the more forcible to her, falling clear upon the dark silence. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- No direct answer could have been half so forcible. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The latter immediately took the man by the shoulder and asked him, in language more forcible than polite, what he was doing there. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Spying, informing, constant investigations of everybody and everything must become the rule where there is a forcible attempt to moralize society from the top. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Finally he resorted to a forcible-feeble display of violence. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There is a dreadful amount of forcible scrubbing and arranging and pocketing implied in some socialisms. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The means commonly employed, however, the imprisonment of all the refractory members, one would think, were forcible enough. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A person may be in such a condition that forcible feeding or enforced confinement is necessary for his own good. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Surely I am not misstating its position when I say that forcible suppression was the creed of this Commission. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The intellectual man has been loath to come to grips with the forcible man. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Barrande has made forcible remarks to precisely the same effect. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- All these things point to a lonely and forcible mind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Maisie