Serving or intended to coerce.

Roget 744: compelling etc. v.; coercive, coactive^†; inexorable etc. 739; compulsory, compulsatory^†; obligatory, stringent, peremptory.    forcible, not to be trifled with; irresistible etc. 601; compelled etc. v.; fain to.    ... show more

Roget 739: severe; strict, hard, harsh, dour, rigid, stiff, stern, rigorous, uncompromising, exacting, exigent, exigeant^†, inexorable, inflexible, obdurate, austere, hard-headed, hard-nosed, hard-shell [U.S.], relentless, Spartan, Draconian, stringent, strait-laced, searching, unsparing, iron-handed, peremptory, absolute, positive, arbitrary, imperative; coercive etc. 744; tyrannical, extortionate, grinding, withering, oppressive, inquisitorial; inclement etc. (ruthless) 914.1; cruel etc. (malevolent) 907; haughty, arrogant etc. 885; precisian^†.    ... show more